Japanese and Other Languages on the Internet

[quintonsosa]

What must I do in order to recieve the actual foriegn charecters on websites and downloaded documents?
I use Office and Internet Explorer.


Sincerly,

Quinton Sosa

[The Ennead IX]

Windows isn't really one of my strong points (neither's Linux come to that :p ) but a quick search came up with this which may help

http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/explorer.html

[chrism01]

If you do decide to use Linux, you may need this:

Canna is a Kana-Kanji conversion engine.
This package holds the server and related utility.

Update /etc/services to get the canna service recognized.

cannaserver is started as daemon. This package needs
the Canna dictionaries (cannadict package) to be functional.

WWW: http://www.nec.co.jp/japanese/product/computer/soft/canna/

:)

[banzaikai]

Ohayo.


from quintonsosa:
What must I do in order to recieve the actual foriegn charecters on websites and downloaded documents?
I use Office and Internet Explorer.


Errr. First, you're gonna need Linux to be on topic here :D
I mean, what part of "Just Linux" don't you get?

But, for the sake of continued diplomatic relations between our two cultures:

1) Head over to your control panel - Add/Remove software - Windows Setup
and select "Foreign Language Support". Once this is enabled, head over to:

2) Windows Update - download all the modules for the different languages you wish to install (you'll also see different keyboard maps). You can pick as many as you see fit (I've got about a dozen in there).

3) As always, reboot.

4) When the machine (finally!) loads up, you'll see a tiny blue square in your systray that SHOULD have "En" on it (this means "English". Right click on the box, and you'll get your switch menu ("Jp" for Japanese, "Es" for Espanol, etc.).

Note: The IME (Input Method Editor) ONLY works with IE and Outlook, and won't print the characters unless already loaded as a font into your printer. I tried it, all I got were boxes...

Hope this helps...

banzai

[Parcival]

As I'd like to get to know more about the Japanese culture I'd like to view Japanese websites.

I run a Gentoo system with Firefox 1.0 Preview Release. After some googling I have found out that I can manually set the character encoding in the view menu. I have these options for Japanese listed:

Shift_JIS
ISO-2022-JP
EUC-JP

I have also turned on Auto-Detect for Japanese in Character Encoding. However, when I go to the Japanese Wikipedia (http://ja.wikipedia.org) website (or any other Japanese site for the matter) I can't see any Japanese letter but character placeholders as my Firefox seemingly still can't handle Japanese. What to do next?

[hiwa]

As I'd like to get to know more about the Japanese culture I'd like to view Japanese websites.

I run a Gentoo system with Firefox 1.0 Preview Release. After some googling I have found out that I can manually set the character encoding in the view menu. I have these options for Japanese listed:

Shift_JIS
ISO-2022-JP
EUC-JP

I have also turned on Auto-Detect for Japanese in Character Encoding. However, when I go to the Japanese Wikipedia website (or any other Japanese site for the matter) I can't see any Japanese letter but character placeholders as my Firefox seemingly still can't handle Japanese. What to do next?

Have fonts in your system.
Set fonts on Firefox. ... for Japanese, of course.

[Parcival]

Thank you hiwa, it worked. :)

Do you also have an advice for a good free font I can download? I found a kanji ttf file with 40 characters, but that doesn't render half the characters your beautiful language has. :)

[Ryochan7]

There are several ttfs that I have seen in the Gentoo package database that can be used for displaying Japanese characters. The one that I use is kochi-substitute (http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=kochi-substitute). I haven't run into any problems regarding programs improperly rendering Japanese characters. It might be worth checking out.

I haven't used Linux in a while, so my advice might not be of much help.

[Parcival]

Awesome, it worked perfectly. :) Thank you all very very much. :)