Programmatically switch an input method on Mavericks

Question

Hello,
I'm having a problem creating a program that switches an input method to a specified one. I have been doing some research for a while and have found this answer on the support community, but it doesn't seem to work on Mavericks: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18719398. The indicator switches normally but it doesn't enable the IM (adding TISEnableInputMethod doesn't help). The IM gets enabled only when I switch out of the document and then back in.
The question on stackoverflow doesn't get any answers too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22885767/how-to-programmatically-switch-an-in put-method-on-os-x
Did I hit a bug in the OS or is it something that I'm missing?

Answer 1

Hello
In order to select "Hiragana" text input source in "Kotoeri" module, you'd need to first enable Kotoeri and then select Hiragana. Something like this (provided the textinputsource executable is in the current direcory):
#!/bin/bash
./textinputsource -e "Kotoeri" -s "Hiragana"
Similarly, in order to select "Pinyin - Simplified" text input source in "Chinese - Simplified" module, use the utility like this:
#!/bin/bash
./textinputsource -e "Chinese - Simplified" -s "Pinyin - Simplified"
For those text input sources which are not nested in module, you may simply select it like this:
#!/bin/bash
./textinputsource  -s "Dvorak"
Tested under 10.6.8. Don't know about 10.9.
Good luck,
H