Questions tagged [japanese]
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How can I type ティ `ti` (small ィ) in Japanese on OSX?
I have been typing in Japanese for a while now but I cannot figure out how to type ティ (small ィ, not a big one イ).
How does one do this using the Katakana input method of OSX?
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Microsoft IME + Japanese: Force Hiragana input by default?
I am using Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7. On both machines, I cannot make Hiragana the default input method. Is there a way to do this?
Ｉｎ the IME tool bar, there is the option to set the "Input Mode."...
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How can MS-DOS and other text mode programs display double-width CJK characters?
I've seen many text mode BIOS setup screens in Japanese and Chinese. Recently I've even seen Windows XP setup in Japanese. MS-DOS had Japanese versions too. Real DOS mode, not Windows command prompt!
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Changing "Input Mode" on Windows 7 Japanese IME via keyboard shortcut (hiragana, katakana, alphanumeric; half/full width)
I frequently type Japanese (and a few other languages) using an English keyboard using stock Windows 7 Starter with its standard Japanese Input Method Editor (IME).
Japanese keyboards have two or ...
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Extracting a Zip file with Japanese characters in the archive’s filenames?
I'm trying to extract files from a zip file on Windows 7. The filenames are in Japanese, but they just look like éñé▀é─é±é─ü[é╓é┐éσèGòùé▄é╟é⌐üÖâ}âMâJâZâbâg20110423. They include a 3D model file and it'...
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Japanese IME on Windows: switch back to romaji input method
There are apparently two ways to work a Japanese keyboard:
type alphabetic characters (romaji) and translate them. ( t+a = ta, t+e = te, and so on)
every key is assigned a single kana (q = ta, w = te ...
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What is this mix of Chinese/Arabic/Korean/Japanese user owning a process listening on port 139?
While using an open port checking tool (Technicians toolbox v1.1.0) I found a strange user name listening on port 139 hiding in PID 4 with a mix of Chinese and other Unicode characters as the user ...
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excel: export csv file with japanese character
In my excel file, the Japanese character is shown correctly,
while when I export it as csv,
the character become question marks
How should I output so that the character can be shown correctly?
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How to convert Japanese characters into roman characters when you accidentally type an English word with Japanese input turned on (on Windows)
In Windows I often find myself trying to write an English word, but with the Japanese Input method selected (unintentionally). So what I get is something like this えぁmpれ. At the moment, I just press ...
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How to get proper Japanese font rendering using English Locale under Windows
Some applications are showing a strange behaviour when rendering Japanese fonts. The font used for kanji is a Chinese one and it looks really weird, especially at small sizes where it is not anti-...
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How to change japanese keymap from QWERTZ to QWERTY on Windows 10?
I'm native German speaker so the keyboard layout I'm used to is QWERTZ. Since about a year or so I've had the chance to study Japanese and part of it is obviously also writing texts in Japanese. I ...
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Unable to change Japanese Input Method on Windows 10
I can toggle between languages but can't change the Input Method to Kanji, Kana or Katakana.
All tutorials and instructions says that after selecting Japanese Microsoft IME you only need to click on ...
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How do you type old or uncommon kanji in the Microsoft Windows 8 Japanese IME?
I am trying to write out a Basho haiku. When converting using the IME, some words that are in hiragana get changed to kanji and some that have kanji don't get changed, like the 切れ字 ”かな” that didn't ...
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How to disable “Ctrl+Shift+J” shortcut on a MacBook Pro’s Japanese keyboard?
Is there any way to disable Ctrl+Shift+J shortcut on Mac Japanese keyboard?
As you can see from this article it switches to hiragana
Ctrl+Shift+J switch to hiragana input
I’m on Mac OS X 10.10.5 (...
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Japanese Keyboard
I'd like to get a Japanese keyboard for a custom project (reason Japanese is good is the small space bar giving way to lots of modifier keys). I will be respraying the keys, so (superficially) the ...
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Kanji changing to boxes in Excel when I switch from Japanese to English input
I'm creating a database that includes a column of Japanese amidst many columns of English, but every time I switch my input language to English, the kanji turn to boxes with the character 字 inside ...
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Fix Japanese IME after April 2018 update
I have this problem on two computers now. I had the Japanese language pack installed, and used the IME keyboard. I used to be able to use CTRL-CAPSLOCK to switch to Hiragana after changing the ...
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Windows Japanese IME: Disabling Romaji Mode
Is it possible to disable the romaji input mode in the Japanese IME in Windows so that only the kana input mode is available?
This is possible in other operating systems, for example in Mac OS X, as ...
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Converting my iTunes library to romaji
I have just added to my iTunes library a bunch of new Japanese songs. When I say a bunch, I mean it. A lot of them. And their titles are mostly in their original Japanese form, which is in kanji, ...
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How to enter long vowels with Anthy?
I use the Anthy IME with ibus. I know that I can switch a word to Katakana with the F7 key but when I do this, any long vowels are kept as two regular syllable katakanas. That is, わあ (waa -- this is ...
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Convert hexadecimal Shift-JIS to the characters
I am searching for the way to convert the hexadecimal value of Shift-JIS to the character in Unix/Linux command line.
A Shift-JIS code table can be found here.
For:
82 ae (0x82ae)
I would expect:
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Is there a way to run a script in Windows 10 that changes the language of a program or app?
I work in Japan and in my laboratory there are many shared PCs (attached to instruments). Most of them are Japanese language PCs and the programs and apps installed open to the language of the OS by ...
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How to use auditpol to check the setting, if the category is in Japanese?
I try use powershell to check server audit setting in windows by using command
auditpol.exe /get /category:"DS Access"
For some servers, the language is Japanese, the command returned can ...
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How can I restore my original IME Romaji input settings?
the this one, Japanese IME on Windows: switch back to romaji input method (3) did not help.
The problem seems the same.
My Vista home premium version PC, I had been using Microsoft IME to use English ...
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How to type Japanese using kana input (かな入力) using an ANSI keyboard
I'm using an ANSI Keyboard with a thinclient on a customer's VDI using Windows 7 Japanese OS.
and when I change IME mode to kana input (かな入力) I can't type ろ/ロ character because no key on the ...
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Japanese Keyboard (Microsoft IME) 'not working' (Behaving like ENG Keyboard)
It's been like this for more than 10 days for now, I thought that maybe updating my windows would miraculously fix this but It didn't.
Beforehand, I had to press LAlt+ Shift, it switched to Japanese ...
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Microsoft Japanese IME - Disable Alt + `
I have been using Alt + ` frequently in one of my applications.
However, enabling Japanese IME input has messed up this combination because it toggles between alpha and hiragana (Microsoft IME + ...
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Kanji characters appear as boxes
I'm having trouble with the display of japanese characters on Windows 8 Pro (English, 64-bit, updated regularly). They appear as boxes...
... in windows explorer, windows menus (even in the language ...
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Are there any Google Chrome extensions for inserting Furigana over Kanji? [closed]
Are there any Google Chrome extensions or userscripts for automatically inserting Furigana characters over Kanji in web pages?
Please don't suggest Furigana Injector, because it doesn't work and is ...
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Zipfile character encoding challenge
NOTE: This question is different from decompress ZIP with given encoding because none of those solutions work, and I'm unsure if a properly-functioning unzip program can even retrieve the correct ...
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To search japanese sites in Google?
I am trying to search japanese sites for Embryology unsuccessfully by
filetype:swf site:*.jp embryology
but it returns only a few results.
The problem is that I do not have specific url pattern ...
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Japanese Direct Input
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NJS3MU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I ordered these to put on my keyboard. I can't figure out how to get windows to directly put these ...
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Website that used to display unicode properly no longer does so
This is a problem that I've encountered a couple times recently. Here is my most recent experience:
Trying to browse https://www.scape.sc/release.php?id=48, a page that contains japanese text. The ...
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Japanese Text showing squares on windows 7
Text in japanese is displayed as squares on windows 7 (home premium, my version) on the whole system and iTunes.
Text is displayed correctly in Chrome.
How to fix this?
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Automatically center Japanese ruby text in LibreOffice
I have activated Asian Phonetic Guide in LibreOffice to add furigana to Japanese words but every time I open it up, it adds the furigana on the left (which I assume is a result of the style I have ...
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How to write Japanese double-consonant pattern in Windows Occidental keyboard
I'm learning Hiragana, and recently I've learned about double consonants. As an example I saw きつさてん - kissaten-, that means Cafe.
My question basically is how to write it in a computer: I can put my ...
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Windows japanese keeps turning to kana when i am on hirigana
I have been using the japanese downloadable keyboard on windows 10, with the ime program (or whatever its called) however, recently every time i put in a "n" it turns it into kana instead of the ...
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Microsoft Japanese IME being useless
I'm using the Microsoft Japanese IME on Windows 10. Sometimes it's strangely useless with its suggestions, for instance I'm trying to type 捕る:
Even if I tab through the entire list, 捕る is nowhere to ...
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Behaviour of Japanese IME
OS: Windows 7
IME: Both Google Japanese IME and Microsoft IME
When using my IME, it behaves rather odd. When typing in one window/field - i.e. the Google search bar in Firefox - it behaves as ...
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How to display Chinese/Korean/Japanese characters in Skype?
All the characters become squares in Skype.
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Japanese IME conversion candidates in English
I have the Japanese IME for Windows 10 installed, and that's what I'm using. I'm using the previous version, because whenever I try to use the current version it constantly tells me the IME is not ...
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How to remap the English/Japanese input toggle shortcut (Alt + ` ) in Google IME?
I would like to remap the Alt + ` shortcut that allows one to switch between English and Japanese input to Ctrl + Space. How can I achieve this?
I presume the keys that I need to remap are "...
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Windows 10 Japanese IME not working with text input
I just installed the Japanese language pack, but I can't get it to work. Whenever I switch to the Japanese keyboard and hit the "A" button, I receive the error "Japanese IME is not ...
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Selenium breaks Japanese input in Firefox
I am using Selenium + Python to launch Firefox with an existing profile, not a temporary profile as by default. I have noticed that for any profile that I have used with Selenium, Japanese input is ...
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How to type Japanese with kana input in a たていすかん (109-key) layout using a 104-key ANSI layout
I want to practice typing with a kana input たていすかん keyboard layout, however I don't have an 109-key たていすかん Japanese keyboard.
After browsing amazon.co.jp, I found that a lot of QWERTY/104-key ...
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Windows 10 Microsoft IME Japanese changed (via registry) QWERTY to QWERTZ; Can't switch to Kana Input via Shortcut
Playing games in Japanese I noticed, that the MS IME for Japanese sometimes uses the QWERTZ Layout (I'm using a German Keyboard) instead of the QWERTY it usually is stuck to.
I couldn't find a pattern ...
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How to switch Z and Y for japanese input?
Since I am Hungarian, I am used to the Hungarian QWERTZ layout when typing, even in English. However, I have recently started to type in Japanese, which is based on a QWERTY layout. Maybe I would just ...
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Japanese Keyboard: How do you use the symbols on the￥ key?
On a Japanese keyboard I can see that only the ￥ key has more than two Japanese symbols, i.e. ￥ , |, - and sometimes ¬. Which modifier keys (Shift, Alt, Ctrl etc.) do I need to press to get each of ...
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How do I write a kanji with the pen on the Surface Pro 4?
In a previous Windows 10 version I could select to handwrite English words or Japanese kanji from the on-screen keyboard after tapping the keyboard icon in the right-hand corner. That option appears ...
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Is it possible to set a single key—not a function key—to switch input methods on a US keyboard?
I have the U.S. version of the Apple Magic Keyboard, and occasionally use the Japanese input method with it.
Currently I have Ctrl+Space to switch languages, but it's a bit of a hassle. Is there a ...
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