Typing in Japanese

hey aho, why don't you move this to your section?

Never post past midnight. :beaten: I think ChibiBoi wants to have more fonts than the standard ones XP includes. I think Japanese support is already set up (am I wrong?) on the computer.

yep :victory: lol, i like your sig, mixxdreamer

the links on that site, dochira, most of them don't have fonts that support japanese. when i type then, they turn into these rectangles...

I'm having problem reading japanese on japanese programs. I'm trying to use Winny. All i see is ?????

I have the Japanese IME installed. I can type and read japanese on websites.

Can anyone help me?

murasaki wrote:I'm having problem reading japanese on japanese programs. I'm trying to use Winny. All i see is ?????

I have the Japanese IME installed. I can type and read japanese on websites.

Can anyone help me?

What you need to do is the following (assuming you are using XP):

1) Open up the Control Panel.

2) Open Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options.

3) Click on "Regional and Language Options" and a new window should pop up.

4) Click on the "Advanced" tab.

5) Under "Language for non-Unicode Programs," change the highlighted option to Japanese.

That should allow any program you want to use in Japanese to be installed and display properly without mojibake.

HTH,

‘‰¤š

kokuou, your the best!

There is also an English patch for Winny that will display the menu items in English, but doing what Kokuou says will definitely work.

arnel98 wrote:
Does anyone know what website can help write numbers in japanese katakana? I want to write my id in katakana (arnel98). :crazy:

thats gonna be hard. just write it in kanji - makes for 1 character per number.

easier that way ^_~

arnel98 wrote:Does anyone know what website can help write numbers in japanese katakana? I want to write my id in katakana (arnel98). :crazy:

Only saw this concern after the previous reply from kalayaan, although it maybe 2 years too late for a reply. :beaten:

Arnel98,
Regarding the use of numbers, just use the standard format. ie: 1,2,3, etc. Majority of the time, Japanese don't use the Japanese/Chinese system of writing numbers. The "English" way WILL suffice. Japanese people recognize the use of 1,2,3,etc already and don't really use ˆêC@“ñC@ŽOCetc.
However if you want to know, you can copy and save the proceeding because this is how 98 would be in numbers.
‹ã\”ª@(lit: KyuJyuHachi=ninetyeight)
or....
܋ӻ (lit: KyuHachi=nine eight)
Use according to your discretion.

ahochaude wrote:Only saw this concern after the previous reply from kalayaan, although it maybe 2 years too late for a reply. :beaten:

Arnel98,
Regarding the use of numbers, just use the standard format. ie: 1,2,3, etc. Majority of the time, Japanese don't use the Japanese/Chinese system of writing numbers. The "English" way WILL suffice. Japanese people recognize the use of 1,2,3,etc already and don't really use ˆêC@“ñC@ŽOCetc.
However if you want to know, you can copy and save the proceeding because this is how 98 would be in numbers.
‹ã\”ª@(lit: KyuJyuHachi=ninetyeight)
or....
܋ӻ (lit: KyuHachi=nine eight)
Use according to your discretion.

..or if he insists in katakana, her is 98 in katakana:
ƒiƒCƒ“ƒ`ƒGƒC[ƒgB

niko2x wrote:..or if he insists in katakana, her is 98 in katakana:
ƒiƒCƒ“ƒ`ƒGƒC[ƒgB

... well, ƒiƒCƒ“ƒeƒBƒGƒCƒg would be how *I* would put it into katakana.
I totally don't mean that to upstage you niko :sweat:
Although, I like the old style flavour that the ƒ` gives :mrgreen:

‘‰¤š

kokuou wrote:... well, ƒiƒCƒ“ƒeƒBƒGƒCƒg would be how *I* would put it into katakana.
I totally don't mean that to upstage you niko :sweat:
Although, I like the old style flavour that the ƒ` gives :mrgreen:

‘‰¤š

no sweat, kokuou! we all know that you are 'da man' when it comes to the JP tongue. :bow:

niko2x wrote:no sweat, kokuou! we all know that you are 'da man' when it comes to the JP tongue. :bow:

:say_yes:

He is. :bow:

Hence, his username. :hehe:

ahochaude wrote:Only saw this concern after the previous reply from kalayaan, although it maybe 2 years too late for a reply. :beaten:

Arnel98,
Regarding the use of numbers, just use the standard format. ie: 1,2,3, etc. Majority of the time, Japanese don't use the Japanese/Chinese system of writing numbers. The "English" way WILL suffice. Japanese people recognize the use of 1,2,3,etc already and don't really use ˆêC@“ñC@ŽOCetc.
However if you want to know, you can copy and save the proceeding because this is how 98 would be in numbers.
‹ã\”ª@(lit: KyuJyuHachi=ninetyeight)
or....
܋ӻ (lit: KyuHachi=nine eight)
Use according to your discretion.

yup, 2 years too late, hehehe.
thanks anyway


new question regarding japanese writing.
If you're writing kanji/katakana/hiragana vertically, how would it be?
Is it like:
J
D
O
R
A
M
A
or is it like:
JDORAMA rotated 90 degrees (assuming jdorama is a japanese word)?
or does it matter?

arnel98 wrote:new question regarding japanese writing.
If you're writing kanji/katakana/hiragana vertically, how would it be?
Is it like:
J
D
O
R
A
M
A
or is it like:
JDORAMA rotated 90 degrees (assuming jdorama is a japanese word)?
or does it matter?

i think it really depends on to whom you're writing to, and in what context. case in point, if you are going to be writting a term paper, (I.E. more formal) then it's from up to down. but i think nowadays more people write from horizontally than anything. if you just go to any JP web page, it's that moreso than vertical.

- niko

niko2x wrote:i think it really depends on to whom you're writing to, and in what context. case in point, if you are going to be writting a term paper, (I.E. more formal) then it's from up to down. but i think nowadays more people write from horizontally than anything. if you just go to any JP web page, it's that moreso than vertical.

- niko

oic, thanks

arnel98 got the question wrong, I guess. Vertical writing in Japanese doesn't rotate the characters, but the position of commas (ten) etc. changes, so the ten go to the right side as well as the full stop (maru). So it's more like

J
D
O
R
A
M
A

arnel98 wrote:
or is it like:
JDORAMA rotated 90 degrees (assuming jdorama is a japanese word)?
or does it matter?

lol that's funny :) no offense, but it would be so freaking difficult to write a kanji under an angle of 90‹. Thank god we don't need to practice writing them at 2 angles :) Basically, if you WOULD write under an angle, everybody would just rotate the paper because it's easier to read and write. So as arglborps said, you just write from top to bottom, with the top and bottom of each character just as usual.



[for people who know hiragana] try to write the hiragana@‚ß [me] upside down. Without analyzing the strokes in advance (so just from your memory). And don't copy a rotated one. It's really difficult, it took me like a few minutes to manage writing it correctly. :rofl:

@arglbops & supermidget: thanks for the response...

@supermidget: yes, i figure it would be hard to write kanji at 90 degrees... hehehe. I was thinking along the lines of typing kanji in the computer...:)