how do you write japanese on computer?
nel`chee
katakana/hirigana?
i would like to know that cause i'm learning some little japanese on my own
(dictionary, tutorials on the web...), when i go to our capital town for
further education i will go to the REAL language course but only if i'll
have enough money for it :/
plz, if enyone can explain how do you japanese people write japanese on your
PC's, i would be very greatful.
arigato,
nel`chee
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Junn Ohta
ne...@vise-poslovne-ponude.fak-ofさんは書きました。
> i understand there are fonts, but do they contain kanji or just
> katakana/hirigana?
Japanese fonts contain kanji as well as hiragana/katakana.
Hiragana/katakana both consist of 50 characters plus some extra.
Kanji consists of some southand of characters.
> plz, if enyone can explain how do you japanese people write japanese on your
> PC's, i would be very greatful.
We have Japanese keyboards. On which there are hiraganas
on the keytops. You can input a hiragana on the keytop directly
in the hiragana mode, or you can input a hiragana with ASCII
characters in romaji sequence with some help of an IME (Input
Method Editor) in the romaji mode. In latter case you don't
need any Japanese keyboards.
Once hiraganas are entered, they are not "commited" (passed to
an application) yet. They are under control of the IME (shown
in underline or reverse mode). You can press Enter to commit
and pass them to an application, or you can press Space (or other
conversion key) to convert those hiragana text into kanji/
hiragana/katakana text and then commit the converted text.
If you are not satisfied with the converted string (wrong kanji,
wrong word separation, etc.), you should press space to get
another candidate for the word or press left/right arrow keys
to move to the point where you need some correction.
Umm, what I wrote above is only a brief sketch of the way with
Japanese text input. Is it clear enough?
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oh...@sdg.mdd.ricoh.co.jp
IIJIMA Hiromitsu
> i understand there are fonts, but do they contain kanji or just
> katakana/hirigana?
I assume you are trying to write on non-Japanese Windows systems.
On Windows XP -> You can install 'Japanese Input Method' from Control Panel.
On Windows 2000/Me or below, plus Office XP
-> Get Japanese IME for Office XP, from Microsoft Website.
Or you may already have it in Office XP CD-ROM.
On Windows 2000/Me or below, without Office XP
-> Go to WindowsUpdate and install 'Global IME for Japanese'.
You enter sentence in Romaji, then it is automatically converted into
Hiragana.
Then you press Space bar to convert to Kanjis or perhaps F7 to Katakana.
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nel`chee
> Japanese text input. Is it clear enough?
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actually, you wrote pretty much what i thought it would be... (converting to
kanji etc.)
yeah, and can you please explain why do your posts (and my reply to it)
come out in a very weird-hard-to-read font on my display?
Junn Ohta
> come out in a very weird-hard-to-read font on my display?
Maybe the previous post of mine contains Japanese characters.
I'll try to avoid them this time. Are there any changes?
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oh...@sdg.mdd.ricoh.co.jp
nel`chee
> > come out in a very weird-hard-to-read font on my display?
>
> Maybe the previous post of mine contains Japanese characters.
> I'll try to avoid them this time. Are there any changes?
yup, the text is good old Times New Roman now
^_^