gamera 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Can you see 'Nihongo ' .com on your English operating system? That's 'Nihongo' could be any kanji like 'Tokyo ' or 'suiminbusoku' lol... whatever. Just wonder if your computer doesn't handle typing kanji in, what the point for us to have domain names of 'Nihongo'.com Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderpants 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 XP can handle jp input, you just have to install it off the CD ME,98,95 can handle it too, but you need to get IME from Microsoft.com even win 3.11 can do it, but i doubt MS supports it anymore with IME you can make nice word doc's too All current browsers can display kanji, they are even supposed to detect the content of the pages, but it usually goes wrong. You can switch encoding in the "view" menu don't know about mac hope that answers your question ATB TP Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderpants 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 ..allmost forgot, western windows versions before XP could not handle kanji filenames, never found out how japanese DOS worked. When i made bookmarks with kanjis in win98, backup and copy was a real problem. Works smooth with XP though Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Author Share Posted January 18, 2005 Quote: Originally posted by Thunderpants: ..allmost forgot, western windows versions before XP could not handle kanji filenames, never found out how japanese DOS worked. When i made bookmarks with kanjis in win98, backup and copy was a real problem. Works smooth with XP though Hi Thunderpants. That's something what I wonder. Though we share kanji, when I view some Chinese web site, some kanjis don't show up correct. I hear it's because of encode difference. Even they show up correct, I don't think I can understand what they say completely lol.. It's another problem So 'Nihongo'.com only works convenient to those who speak Japanes as mother tongue using computers on Japanese OS, I guess. How about among western languages? For example while you are on English OS, does some special letters like Danish 'O slash' ( like one for KO/benhavn ) show up correct ? My computers which are all on Japanese OS have problems with special letters like Danish 'O slash', German umlaut, French cedille(spelling not sure, C with ','), Italian back accent etc. When they are used, they show up like strange kanji in my monitor. Link to post Share on other sites
viv&kev 0 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Do many japanese sites have names like that? any good examples of major ones? Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 viv&kev, I don't think many do. If I remember right, that was about 5 years ago when 'Nihongo'.com got available but has not widespreaded yet. And a Kanji and a Hiragana are 2 byte characters, an English alphabet is usually 1 byte character. So when we type Kanji, Hiragana and English alphabet together with in a line, we need to switch the mode for it - Zenkaku( for 2 byte letters )/hankaku (for 1 byte letters) key. I am not sure English computers have it or not, guess probably no. When we need to switch the key each and every time on typing some, it's really annoying Perhaps that may be one of reason why it has not widespreaded - just my opinion though. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 I didn't know they existed before reading this. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted January 21, 2005 Author Share Posted January 21, 2005 Yeah, they do scouser. I was adviced to have one but I didn't think it was worth having. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 You never need a Japanese OS, you can do it all from a ENG OS - maybe unless you are doing stuff in the DOS prompt. Just install japanese fonts, set it to the default language and you're sorted. Link to post Share on other sites
OgiOgiOgi 0 Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 You're sorted, apart from the fact that no-one has/uses them. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 You can change the encoding by just right clicking (almost) anywhere in the browser window, then click the encoding option & it will bring up a list of languages. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted January 25, 2005 Author Share Posted January 25, 2005 Yeah me jane, but my problem is I don't understand Chinesre completely. I can understand approx. meanings coz it's all kanjis though. But need much more time and not confident. Bobby12, it doesn't mean you are switching from ENG OS to JPN OS, right? You just take JPN encode? Grrrrrr... Link to post Share on other sites
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