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Furzball

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:10 am


I am being offered lessons in writting the three major style of japanese (hiragana, kanji and something else forgot sweatdrop ) except it is being done across the web because my tutor is a lady in japan. However my keyboard is the simple english alphabet one, when I heard you need a special keyboard to do japanese. My keyboard is part of my laptop (sorry I have no desktop) so is there any plugins, programs, anything to be able to type japanese. I will be thankful for any help.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:49 am


There was a thread somewhere about this. Don't know if you have Windows XP though.

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Aiko_589

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:45 am


yes, koiyuki will probably lock this and leave link to you.

and note: in japan, people use kana input when the typing at no trutype font, other wise they type romaji, which is instantly cnverted to hirgana, so i believe you should be able to do it on your keyboard.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:39 pm


First of all, yes, I will lock this, Aiko, for it is a repeat of another thread type I've seen many times *there really should be a sticky about it, or something...* And second of all, for typing/being able to read Japanese, you've gotta to two things. First(if running Windows, Mac users should have it already), go here, and download and install the IME fo your system. *make sure you have the installation disc for your OS on hand* Second, if it doesn't let you type i Japanese after that, get The NJStar Japanese Word Processor, and start typing away.

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