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[gamera]

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

[Thunderpants]

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

[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

[gamera]

 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 :p

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.

[viv&kev]

Do many japanese sites have names like that? any good examples of major ones?

[gamera]

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.

[scouser]

I didn't know they existed before reading this.

[gamera]

Yeah, they do scouser.
I was adviced to have one but I didn't think it was worth having.

[bobby12]

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.

[OgiOgiOgi]

You're sorted, apart from the fact that no-one has/uses them.

[me jane]

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.

[gamera]

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...