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Dealing with a Japanese Clie: XP/2000 Japanese Input: Wireless in Japan It can be tricky getting your Native language apps to play nice with Japanese operating systems, and vice versa. This information should help you become a bilingual computing master. Windows 9x Japanese InputGlobal IME - Global IME is a Asian text input solution from Microsoft, for Windows 9x operating systems. This will only work for Windows 9x, and not for Windows 2000. Win2000 has native multi-language support. Global IME will allow you to enter Japanese into Windows, in the same way the Japanese do it in Japan. This software works great, however it can only be used within Microsoft applications. (Go figure.) http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/features/ime.asp Windows 2000 native Japanese Language supportWindows 2000 has completely native Japanese, and every other language you can think of, input support. The foreign text can be entered in any application running in Windows and is an overall great solution. Sean has a great instruction page on how to input Japanese with Windows 2000 and other Windows operating systems. http://www.seanspot.com/jwrite/jwrite-mframe.htm http://www.seanspot.com/jwrite/MS-IME/GetIME/jwrite-getime-w2k.htm Dual booting systemsActually is not necessary with the latest operating systems, Linux, and Windows 2k/XP now have multilingual support. NJstar - NJ star is a third party program which functions much like Global IME.
From experience, the easiest way to get Japanese input working in Linux is to install a Japanese language distro from the start. This will ensure that all for proper font packages, font servers, and Japanese versions of apps that available are all properly installed. It is possible to make your system do Japanese input if you already have a English distro installed. Basically it involves installing four major packages. In order to get my system set up I exchanged emails with a great person at http://www.suse.com and there is a link below to the information that they gave me. It is very comprehensive, and should be enough to get you started. SuSE Japanese Linux correspondence Here are some other random links to help you out. http://anime.collapsar.net/nihongo/JIM/index.shtml http://tlug.linux.or.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/node62.html http://tlug.linux.or.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/node21.html http://tlug.linux.or.jp/craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/node22.html http://www.linux.or.jp/en/ http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~t-f/libretto/netscape.html http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/skk/ http://www.freewnn.org/ (in Japanese) http://www.nec.co.jp/japanese/product/computer/soft/canna/ (in Japanese) Adobe Acrobat ReaderIf you are running an English version of Adobe Acrobat Reader but need to be able to handle Japanese fonts, there are Asian language font packs available directly from Adobe. Japanese fonts in acrobat reader acrrasianfontpack Learn Kanji on your PDANot exactly computing in Japan, but this is neat nevertheless. I recently came across a program that allows you to practice Kanji, among other written languages, on your PalmOS device. The program will display the English meaning of the individual kanji, and then it is up to the user to select the correct character from a list of five. There are nine different kanji lessons available, and they are increasingly difficult. In addition to Japanese Kanji, you can also learn Thai, Greek, and there is even the capability for you to create your own lessons. Each lesson only takes up about 15k on your device, and the program itself is small as well. To use, just download, unzip, and install 'lessons.pdb', and then install any of the lessons. Japanese ClieOwn a Japanese Sony Clie? Read this. http://euroclie.free.fr/Uk/multi.html Windows CE devices Dealing with a Japanese Clie: XP/2000 Japanese Input: Wireless in Japan |
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