About ***uoka
Aug 21, 2000 | 8:27 am
#17
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I suppose the only way to get around this is to use the [ALT] key plus 0181 and 0231 (and for good measure, why not throw in 0163 or 0131 for a little flair). Alright, let's see if it works...
k
Now try...
Fkuoka
k
Now try...
Fkuoka
Aug 21, 2000 | 5:41 pm
#23
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ORD12: The first symbol you wrote looks like a trident.
The second one is (I believe) an archaic character no longer used but that has a reading the same as that of "That is to say..." (I wonder if Chinese uses it....) So perhaps aptly chosen as a summation of your initial comments! (?)
But I'm still not sure if my Japanese is working (Am assuming No from the "nice try" comments.) -Strange that it looks fine on my computer. I wonder if hockeynuts or other locals can read it...
IT-weak KP
The second one is (I believe) an archaic character no longer used but that has a reading the same as that of "That is to say..." (I wonder if Chinese uses it....) So perhaps aptly chosen as a summation of your initial comments! (?)
But I'm still not sure if my Japanese is working (Am assuming No from the "nice try" comments.) -Strange that it looks fine on my computer. I wonder if hockeynuts or other locals can read it...
IT-weak KP
Aug 21, 2000 | 6:24 pm
#24
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It's geek-time!
(computer-geek time, anyway).
kidpachinko is using a character set that includes double-byte characters, which is required to use text instead of graphics to display Chinese or Japanese. Anybody without that set of double-byte characters will get extended ASCII or ANSI character set, or posssibly another set of double-byte characters whose numeric codes correspond.
Aug 21, 2000 | 7:38 pm
#26
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onefreeman: Nope, not exactly foohkuchan! (I forgot to mention than "chan" is a suffix which conveys casualness, youth, etc. in Japanese. -Like calling Tim "Timmy," or Charles "Charlie," for example -albeit more for women than men.)
Side question for islandcub: Is there any way I can get my system from changing quotation marks in everyone's posts into funky Japanese characters (along with the character following the quotes.) -Drives me crazy, although only rarely is indecipherable.
Thanks! -KP
Side question for islandcub: Is there any way I can get my system from changing quotation marks in everyone's posts into funky Japanese characters (along with the character following the quotes.) -Drives me crazy, although only rarely is indecipherable.
Thanks! -KP
Aug 21, 2000 | 9:59 pm
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Learning all the time here ... never realised there were four versions of the letter "U" with accents on them using alt keys!
Spellchecker/censors the word over are destroyed after this discovery.
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Oct 6, 2000 | 7:57 pm
#29
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Oct 6, 2000 | 8:50 pm
#30
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Kid,
As mentioned it is a two-byte problem. What anybody without a Japanese character set installed will see is Bakemoji The result is a string of unrelated characters and punctuation which is how the single-byte system used for English interprets the characters in Kanji. You can set your default encoding in your browser to Western and the fonts to Times and Courier to avoid the extra charaters or misinterpretations of quotes on your system. If you do this however you will be defeating the purpose of using the Japanese system, i.e. to be able to communicate with all of your friends and colleagues (due to being able to use both Japanese and English characters in the Japanese system). You could in theory set up a macro to switch back and forth each time, but it would be a pain. You may be able to find shareware solutions for this too.
As mentioned it is a two-byte problem. What anybody without a Japanese character set installed will see is Bakemoji The result is a string of unrelated characters and punctuation which is how the single-byte system used for English interprets the characters in Kanji. You can set your default encoding in your browser to Western and the fonts to Times and Courier to avoid the extra charaters or misinterpretations of quotes on your system. If you do this however you will be defeating the purpose of using the Japanese system, i.e. to be able to communicate with all of your friends and colleagues (due to being able to use both Japanese and English characters in the Japanese system). You could in theory set up a macro to switch back and forth each time, but it would be a pain. You may be able to find shareware solutions for this too.