What languages are supported?

2004-12-06 01:47:33 am

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Out of curiosity, I'm wondering if Japanese is one..

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2004-12-06 02:50:31 am

i tried some time ago to type in japanese on the forum and i don't think it worked very well. you might have to bash it a few times to get it to work. but yes, of course it's supported!

Madrox

2004-12-06 09:35:12 am

Shinku, watashi7achi dekiru shiyo romanji.
(please excuse the lack of a numpad)

EDIT: had to change the t to a 7 stupid filter Evil or Very Mad

Red Scarlet

2004-12-06 04:36:53 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Well, I'm not sure how to get kanji to show up on here. If I can't figure it out, maybe I'll just post screencaps of my word processor.

mangadood

2004-12-06 04:42:10 pm

Too many fangirls to count

Doesn't Japanese have a phonetic written language?

KennyMan666

2004-12-06 04:51:06 pm

Viking

Precursor

Not really, but they don't have the same type of alphabet - if you don't count romaji. But anyway. Hiragana and Katakana is one syllable for each symbol, Kanji is one word for each symbol.

...okay, so maybe you can call it phonetic.

nate

2004-12-06 05:15:52 pm

short answer: yes.

Yoshi348

2004-12-06 07:08:55 pm

PAGE BREAKER

Ready and willing.

Well, my computer will sometimes just randomly get me stuck in Japanese typing mode when I'm filling out forms in a web page, including here... usually afterwards I vaugely remember hitting a key by accident.

Chanoire

2004-12-07 01:18:35 am

ひらがな
カタカナ

Works for me. Too bad I don't know any Japanese to type.

On my computer, and I think this is fairly standard, I hit left-alt and left-shift to switch between English and Japanese input. Maybe that's what you're hitting? Only works if you have the input mode installed, of course.

Red Scarlet

2004-12-07 02:49:22 am

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Where do you get the input installer?

Chanoire

2004-12-07 03:47:21 am

I forget exactly how I did it, but it was part of the XP installation/configuration. I opted to install East Asian language support and we had to install the input method extension (IME) from the CD. Mine is a tablet PC, so this may have had to do with using the stylus to draw kana and kanji (somewhat wasted on me at the moment, but my ethnic-Chinese bf was able to get it to recognize some Chinese words he wrote), but I think the mouse would work too. The IME pad lets you draw in a square and then presents you with a list of possible symbols to choose from.

Try regional and language settings in the control panel and see where that gets you. Once I had the East Asian language support installed I picked out input options; I only bothered getting keyboard input for Japanese because it's the only one I'm likely to type in (the East Asian language stuff also includes Korean and Chinese). So I don't know how multiple Asian language entry is handled.

I may have had to do something similar for Word specifically as well. Kana are easy, although I haven't found a keyboard shortcut to switch between katakana and hiragana, etc (maddening). I haven't really tried to input kanji except with the stylus (and very little of that) since my main use of all this is to transcribe bits of Japanese from games or books and paste them into a translator or doc, so I'm usually looking up kanji using Jim Breen's multiradical lookup and copy/pasting: 朱色

Sorry this is answering a lot of stuff you didn't ask and not what you did ask. I was working with a brand-new computer and its original OS and don't really know how to answer your question directly.

I forget exactly how I did it, but it was part of the XP installation/configuration.  I opted to install East Asian language support and we had to install the input method extension (IME) from the CD. Mine is a tablet PC, so this may have had to do with using the stylus to draw kana and kanji (somewhat wasted on me at the moment, but my ethnic-Chinese bf was able to get it to recognize some Chinese words he wrote), but I think the mouse would work too.  The IME pad lets you draw in a square and then presents you with a list of possible symbols to choose from.

Try regional and language settings in the control panel and see where that gets you.  Once I had the East Asian language support installed I picked out input options; I only bothered getting keyboard input for Japanese because it's the only one I'm likely to type in (the East Asian language stuff also includes Korean and Chinese).  So I don't know how multiple Asian language entry is handled.

I may have had to do something similar for Word specifically as well.  Kana are easy, although I haven't found a keyboard shortcut to switch between katakana and hiragana, etc (maddening).  I haven't really tried to input kanji except with the stylus (and very little of that) since my main use of all this is to transcribe bits of Japanese from games or books and paste them into a translator or doc, so I'm usually looking up kanji using Jim Breen's multiradical lookup and copy/pasting: 朱色

Sorry this is answering a lot of stuff you didn't ask and not what you did ask.  I was working with a brand-new computer and its original OS and don't really know how to answer your question directly.

nate

2004-12-07 04:12:41 am

which browser are you using?

Chanoire

2004-12-07 05:11:54 pm

Me? Primarily IE, occasionally Mozilla. I typed my above post on my laptop, which has an IME installed; this one is on my work desktop, which has Asian fonts but no input. However, I seem to be able to copy/paste Japanese in either browser. I do note that previewing in IE shows it as a code in the typing window even though the preview itself is fine.

nate

2004-12-08 02:28:15 pm

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cool. thanks for the encoding change hint, someone.

Chanoire

2004-12-08 03:34:39 pm

Hm. What's that supposed to be?

nate

2004-12-08 03:36:59 pm

argh. so much for that. apparently you have to change the text encoding to japanese in order to see it.

DominicanZero

2004-12-08 08:40:29 pm

直死の魔眼使い

Nate: that can't be, since I'm seeing the jap text that was first posted here with my character encoding set to western. Proof:

nate

2004-12-08 10:15:28 pm

i know. that's why i said "so much for that." i need to figure out how to enter japanese in unicode.

テスト
僕の名前はネイサン・ジャンキーです。

how about that?

ShadowMagus

2004-12-08 10:40:25 pm

DZ - I can't see the first one and I'm on Firefox. Font pack, maybe?

Can someone tell me where to get japanese font packs?

DominicanZero

2004-12-08 11:26:47 pm

直死の魔眼使い

You need to have the Windows Installation CD and install the Asian language packs. That will give you automatic support of Asian languages.

ShadowMagus

2004-12-08 11:39:28 pm

Oh blast, which of these CD's is it...

EDIT: Got it. Thanks DZ.

Chanoire

2004-12-09 03:15:18 am

Quote from njahnke (minus the code tags):

Code:

テスト
僕の名前はネイサン・ジャンキーです。

how about that?

Sorry, no.

DominicanZero

2004-12-09 07:18:04 am

直死の魔眼使い

Quote from Shikyo:

Oh blast, which of these CD's is it...

EDIT: Got it. Thanks DZ.

Sure, no problem.

Jack

2005-08-17 11:40:32 pm

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Well, if you change your Character encoding (Japanese, SHIFT_JIS), it works just fine. :P