Japanese Character Encoding Test
Here is the same snippet of text in various encodings. They all should
appear the same (although the gif's font will probably differ slightly),
so if you see garbage, your browser isn't groking the encoding.
I've selected the test text such that the ``garbage'' shouldn't be too bad
for most non-groking browsers (if it does completely screw up your screen,
let me know what browser/system you're using)
Here it is as:
a gif :
JIS-encoded : $B$3$l$O!V(Jtest$B!W$G$9(J
EUC-encoded : 、ウ、、マ。ヨtest。ラ、ヌ、ケ
Shift-JIS : これは「test」です
Your browser might be able to display them all, none, or maybe just a few.
I use one which can deal with them all.
If any of the bottom four come out, you'll definitely want to access
the dictionary using the encoding. You can do it via the
main gateway page,
or by the following shortcut links:
If you're missing fonts
If you are on a PC and your browser doesn't support Japanese, or if
you think it might if only you had the proper fonts, Microsoft has made a
TrueType font available freely (and it will work with other browsers as
well). Read the documentation
and fetch the
font as a self-extracting .exe
file.
Japanese Input for Windows running IE4.0
If you are using Windows and IE4.0 on an English version of Windows95/NT4.0
(not only English, but any non-Japanese version, actually), you can now
input Japanese text via a freely-available Microsoft's
IME4.0. You can also get the full language pack for Japanese as well.
(There is also a Korean version available at that url.)
If Nothing Seems To Work
If you've tried everything and it still doesn't seem to work, then perhaps
you should get a new browser or OS.
You can still view kanji via GIF images through the
standard no-Japanese-support page.
There's no need to use a service such as @shodouka, since I support
``graphical text'' directly. However, to view other Japanese sites without
any Japanese support
with your graphical browser,
you'll want to check out @shodouka.
Other resources to check for help in figuring out how to get Japanese going
on your system include
The
University of Washington Guide to Japanese Computing and the home pages of
Jim Breen (j.breen@csse.monash.edu.au
) and Ken Lunde (note: please don't bother them with email until
you've thoroughly investigated what they've spent their time preparing).
I hate to say this because it makes me sound like a jerk, but one thing you
should not do is to ask me. I know a fair amount about Japanese
encodings and processing, but zippo about fonts, PCs, macs, Windoze,
Kanjitalk, etc. If you use X
-Windows as I do, Japanese support is a
small matter of getting the fonts and such from your favorite X
archive. I hate to say something unsociable like this, but I get buried in
mail that I simply have no idea how to answer other than to say ``sorry,
I 'dunno''.
Now, I don't mean to ward off other concerns that you might have,
particularly if it seems to be a problem with my server.
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