Entering Japanese text

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:26 pm

How the hec do people put in Japanese characters?

I've tried from Microsoft Word to SubStation and nothing works. All I can do is paste other people's text.

So how do you do it? Need instruction.
(Primarily for MS Word or SSA.)

(I already have the multiple language pack...at least I think...)

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 7:29 pm

私はaltavista へ行き, 時間の原料の多くを翻訳する

Go I to the altavista, translate many of the raw materials of time

edowardo2 · Post by **edowardo2** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 12:10 am

I'll give you a detailed directions

1) Go to Control Panel
2) Date, Time, Language, and Regional Settings
3) Regional and Language Options
4) Click on the Languages and Advanced Tabs and make sure all the asian languages you want support for are activated.

5) Now click on the Language Tab and under the Text Services and Input Languages click the Details Button
6) In the new window under Default Input Language select Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002)
7) Now under Installed Services click Add and select japanese
8) It's pretty straight for from here
おやすみなさい　Ko Oh Yoku-San　

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:59 am

uh...maybe something's wrong....

i did all that stuff like ya told me...but everything won't convert

i'll type in some romanji like oyasuminasai but it stays in romanji...

i'm trying to make it convert romanji or have say like the "A" key equal the hiragana "a" or something...

sorry for the trouble....

edowardo2 · Post by **edowardo2** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 1:35 pm

Oy...okay I thought people would be able to figure this out but maybe not(I did have a hard time with it

)

You know that thing called the "Language Bar", it is either at the top of the screen or docked to the Taskbar. Well open it and select JP as the language. Then you'll see a big A as one of the buttons. Click on it and you'll see it is on Direct Input. Change this to katakana or Hiragana(whichever you prefer). Now when u type romaji it will change it to what you wanted it to. Also one more thing if you hit the spacebar after typing a word it will give you options to change it too ie. Hiragana, Katakana, various Kanji.

If it doesnt work right away(by work i mean instead of making ra ら　it makes it two seperate hiragana ie.　やき) If this happens just go to the language bar settings and fish around under the Japanese Input System MS-IME2002 until you see something about converting romaji. The japanese language has alot of nifty features that you can play around with.

Unfortunately korean doesnt

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 4:37 pm

WHOA!!! COOLNESS!!!

thanks a ton edowardo2!!!

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 6:30 pm

This for XP, or would it work for WinME as well? I'd try it now, but I'm at work so...

§_Akuma_§ · Post by **§_Akuma_§** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:05 pm

it doesnt work for ME. it would be apreciated if someone would explain how b/c i have been wondering for months. ^_^

edowardo2 · Post by **edowardo2** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 11:18 pm

It is available for any version of windows...
Windows XP comes with it, but you can also obtain it from installing Microsoft Office XP Pro. complete install. Basically all you need is the Language Bar. And the best part is Office XP is free from the Kazaa Store.

Don't tell me I'm wrong either I installed it on both ME and '98 so b00j4

Just get Office XP and full install and everything you need will be there then just follow my steps as directed above.

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:12 pm

OK two more questions....

1. Is there a way that I can type so it goes vertically and to the left automatically?

2. How do you insert those quote kinda things? It looks like this (sorry for the crude imitation):
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| blah blah blah_|