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| weeblnbob |
 Posted: Jun 03, 2007 6:35 pm |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 03 Jun 2007
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i have a question that winxp's own help doesn't seem to answer for me. i've got the language pack installed, the language toolbar is active and everything works perfectly fine.
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my keyboard is the US type, so i don't have a key to press if i want to switch input modes (from Hiragana to Direct and back to Hiragana). i recall that Japanese keyboards have these additional keys. so, is there a way for me to set up shortcuts on my US-type keyboard to do that, or should i try to get my hands on a Japanese version of keyboard and use that?
i know that i can just use the mouse to pull down the menu and select what i want, but i'd REALLY prefer a quick press of a keyboard button to do that. or at the very least set up a certain key to toggle between Hiragana and Direct. |
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| del |
| Posted: Jun 27, 2007 4:54 am |
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大好きだよ。
Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Posts: 211
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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weeblnbob wrote: i have a question that winxp's own help doesn't seem to answer for me. i've got the language pack installed, the language toolbar is active and everything works perfectly fine.
EXCEPT...
my keyboard is the US type, so i don't have a key to press if i want to switch input modes (from Hiragana to Direct and back to Hiragana). i recall that Japanese keyboards have these additional keys. so, is there a way for me to set up shortcuts on my US-type keyboard to do that, or should i try to get my hands on a Japanese version of keyboard and use that?
i know that i can just use the mouse to pull down the menu and select what i want, but i'd REALLY prefer a quick press of a keyboard button to do that. or at the very least set up a certain key to toggle between Hiragana and Direct.
Text Services and Input Language > Settings > Key Settings
I have mine set alt+shift to get my language bar to Japanese, then alt+tab to switch between direct and hiragana |
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| parasol |
| Posted: Jun 29, 2007 1:43 pm |
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Happy Days
Joined: 31 May 2007
Posts: 126
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Anyone know how to type in furigana?
I use mac os x, and I can do everything else...but haven't figured out furigana yet >.> |
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| Tatsuka Ito |
| Posted: Jun 30, 2007 12:32 am |
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フレンジャー
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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Location: Surrey,Canada
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| Well, if you want to type with furigana on the web, it impossible unless you have an OS, for everything else i think you have to Purchase NJStar or something. |
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| mangomalte |
| Posted: Jun 30, 2007 5:45 am |
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恋愛写真
Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 1416
Location: Sweden
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anyone knows how to write these round circles which implies that you can put anything you want in its place? when i write まる and hit space i just get a small circle ○.
edit: lol. took me half a minute to figure it out.  i wrote おお instead and this came up: Ｏ.  |
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| Stormchild |
| Posted: Jul 02, 2007 3:55 pm |
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大好きだよ。
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
Posts: 267
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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parasol wrote: Anyone know how to type in furigana?
I use mac os x, and I can do everything else...but haven't figured out furigana yet >.>
This is a bit of a weird question, to be honest. Furigana is just hiragana placed next to kanji, so you really can't "type in furigana" -- you're still typing in hiragana. A typesetter (a person who does text layout) places the hiragana next to the appropriate kanji; as far as I know, it's not some sort of automatic thing. I have never heard of a "furigana" input mode; it's my guess that there's no such thing.
The point here is that the different input modes (hiragana, katakana, and kanji transliteration from either of those) are each related to a character set, whereas "furigana" is a type of layout, not a different type of characters. |
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