Japans, Japanese, Japonais, Japanisch, Giapponese, Japon駸, Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana
source of this page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wjsn/japanese.htm
charset=euc-jp [The preferred character set for this page is EUC-JP.]
Methods for displaying Japanese text in Internet Explorer ( Microsoft-based Web Browser):
- Microsoft Global IME.
with Microsoft Global IME you can input Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text into Web forms and e-mail messages on any language version of Windows 98, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0. And it's easy. Just launch any language version of Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater, Outlook Express 4.0 or greater, or Outlook 98 -- then select Global IME from the taskbar, and you can write the language you choose.
- MSGOTHIC
The Japanese support pack from Microsoft contains the MSGothic font, which is a "Shift-JIS" font. After installing, you can set the font encoding of your browser to this font. [ View > Encoding > Japanese (Shift-JIS) ] a.k.a "SJIS"
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The Japanese characters ressemble
that of the Chinese. Look HERE for a first idea.
The Japanese characters are presented here by means of two methods.
For one of the methods HTML-codes are used. For more information about the
HTML-presentation you might look at this site . Also
pictures were used to present the Japanese characters.
First
the socalled Japanese Alphabet is presented: the 81 Hiragana (1) Characters and after that also the 81 Katakana (2) Characters. The "loanwords" from foreign languages are written by
means of Katakana charters.
Most characters on Japanese sites belong
to the "Kanji" characters". Kanji consists of Chinese "pictures" that are
based upon 214 "basic"-pictures. These are called "Radicals". Look for
more information at: Nuthatch.com or
at the picture with
"radicals". The "funny characters" that you will have to use to make
the radicals yourself are presented in an example . To
construct Japanese characters like 日本 [ 日本 ] look at the information
at this site or at
this one.
At Japanese schools children learn 2000 characters - at the age of 12 they are familiair with the first 1000 characters. They are present at a list - published in 1996. That list is called the Joyo List (96).
In order to see the Japanese characters below, you will have to change the language of your internet browser into Japanese - Shift JIS ! [ Look at: Language Tips ]. If this does not work, you will have to download Japanese Fonts - look at the sites below.
