Japanese characters on computer

**Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:15 am

Do any of you know how to get japanese characters to appear on web pages and such? I have tried going to MSN japan and yahoo japan hoping for an auto pop up to install the characters, but nothing pops up, i just can't see the page. Do any of you have links that you KNOW work? P.S. I have windows XP

**Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2003 1:54 pm

I believe that you have to download Japanese language support through the Windows Update site.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:22 am

Also, you might need to change your encoding option to Japanese (for some pages I've had to do this). <img src="http://www.astronerdboy.com/tenchi/Images/250%20Ryoko%20Sweet%20at%20Door.jpg" style="border:0;"/> My girl, Ryoko.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:03 pm

Man, wasn't unicode supposed to fix all this crap! :P <div style="text-align:center">I'm a Ayeka/Ryoko fan for good reasons..... <img src="http://www.ewulf.com/images/kiss_ts.JPG"/></div>

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:20 pm

UniCode doesn't help if the web page is in Shift-JIS or EUC. IE isn't smart enought to accurately differentiate between languages, especially if there are two or more languages on the same page.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:24 pm

Well, I went to the microsoft web page and can't find anything. Their page is a giant piece of disorganized crap, I downloaded a few files that appeared they might be it, but so far no luck. Have any of you done this and gotten it to work? I could use some major help. Also - what are these encoding things you guys are talking about, would these help me?

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:04 pm

In IE, while online, you would go to your menu bar, select the Tool dropdown menu and select Windows Update. After checking for updates, go to Windows XP list below Critical Updates and Service Packs. It's above Driver Updates. * Welcome * Pick updates to install ----- Critical Updates and Service Packs ----- Windows XP <- select this one ----- Driver Updates * Review and install updates Down the list of Windows XP downloads, there should be Language Packs. You'll need to find Japanese Language Support. Select, download, and install it. (Installation should be automatic as part of the download.) After successfully installing it, go to a Japanese web-site. If the kanji does not show, go to your IE menu bar. Select the View dropdown menu and select/highlight Encoding. A second menu should expand with additional languages. Select Japanese (Auto-Select). The kanji should now show. Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub19.ezboard.com/btenchimuyo79943.showUserPublicProfile?gid=truesheol>True Sheol</A> at: 10/18/03 4:05 pm

**Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:53 am

I went under the XP update menu but I could not find anything on language packs in the list. I looked in the encoding menu and found a large list of languages, but none of them work, including the Japanese ones listed when I was in japanese sites. Heh, I am thankful for your help, but this damn windows stuff is driving me nuts. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":">

**Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:30 pm

Let's start over. Click on Start. Under Settings click on Control Panel. Doubleclick Regional Settings. Click Languages. Select Japanese. You may be asked for your XP disc to load the appropriate fonts or you may need to be online to download them. Go back to Control Panel and doubleclick Internet Options. Under Languages add "Japanese [ja]". Under Fonts look next to "Language script". If it says "Latin based", scroll to "Japanese". The word " Â“ÃºÂ–{ÂŒÃª " (that's "nihongo" in kanji) should appear in the boxes below the choices of "Web page font" and "Plain text font". If not, you need to change your fonts. Continuing on, set the "Web page font" as MS Mincho, MS Gothic, or Arial Unicode MS. (I use Arial Unicode MS.) Set the "Plain text font" as MS Gothic or MS Mincho The word " Â“ÃºÂ–{ÂŒÃª " (that's "nihongo" in kanji) should now appear in the boxes below the choices of "Web page font" and "Plain text font". (If not, you do not have the right fonts and will need to download them. Find them and start over.) Close Control Panel. Doubleclick on Internet Explorer. Go to the menu bar. Select the View dropdown menu. Select Encoding. Select Japanese (Auto-Select). Go to a Japanese web-page to test your configuration. If you are seeing 'gibberish', check to make sure that your Encoding hasn't defaulted back to "Western European (Windows)". Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub19.ezboard.com/btenchimuyo79943.showUserPublicProfile?gid=truesheol>True Sheol</A> at: 10/19/03 2:23 pm

**Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:50 pm

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**Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:53 pm

Woo, it works now, thank you much Sheol.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:28 pm

Glad it worked for you. Just remember to check your encoding everytime you load a Japanese web page and see 'gibberish'. You might want to turn off "Auto-Select" if it does this on a regular basis. Japanese web sites often contain an English header and this causes IE to think that the page is in English.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:40 pm

i need to do all of that myself

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:56 pm

Hey TS, What do the Japanese use most often on their computers? The two simplified Kanji systems (hiragana and katakana) or do they also use their older kanjis as well? For typing I mean. <div style="text-align:center">I'm a Ayeka/Ryoko fan for good reasons..... <img src="http://www.ewulf.com/images/kiss_ts.JPG"/></div>

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:51 pm

From what I've seen, systems come standard with the "joyo" kanji (with both hiragana and katakana) 'dictionary'. When in 'character mode', you type and the list of characters show up according to letters (romanji) and codes. You choose the appropriate characters, whether kanji, hiragana, or katakana. Word processors come with expanded 'dictionaries' and you can add characters to your dictionary. This is importantant if you are a writer and deal with a lot of obscure kanji. (I believe that Kuroda said he had to input a lot of kanji back into his dictionary when he started scriptwriting for GXP.) Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub19.ezboard.com/btenchimuyo79943.showUserPublicProfile?gid=truesheol>True Sheol</A> at: 10/20/03 6:52 pm

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