Use SJIS to read Japanese
 

Note that for reading the Japanese messages above, you need to manually select the "Shift-JIS" character encoding in your browser...

Greetings verdyp

Thank you for the info.

I presently have a new Japanese keyboard on order. This one doesn't have a JIS key, unless I am missing something, which wouldn't surprise me.

Fabion, earlier in the thread I left a link for the Sun Java 1.5 which is the Japanese page for Java (top of page 2.) Here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ja/download.html

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"Shift-JIS" is not a keystroke on a keyboard. It's a encoding for the Japanese character sets, which uses sequences of 1 (for ASCII characters), 2 (for Hiragana, Katakana, extended Latin, and basic Kanji), or 4 (for extended Kanjis) bytes to encode each character.

The full name of the standard is a number like JISX-0208. On Windows, the Japanese ANSI codepage is based on an extension of the JISX standard, but is commonly refered to as "Shift-JIS" or "SJIS". The full Japanese standard is based on ISO2022, in a Japanese profile, that selects several encoding mechanisms.

In a browser, you generally have a menu option that allows you to change the way the HTML pages should be decoded, in the case where the content of the page is not readable with the autoselected character set, or when the page contains a reference to a character set encoding that is not the one used in the actual content.

This is the case of this thread: the HTML page specifies the ISO-8859-1 encoding, but Japanese users have posted here their message by setting their borwser so that they will send SJIS-encoded characters. So they don't display well, and this have to be changed manually.

Unfortunately, this forum does not encode the main page with a Unicode encoding like UTF-8, and the forum has currently no support for transcoding all incoming messages into Unicode UTF-8.
It would be easier for everyone if the whole forum site was UTF-8, because everybody could use the forum and compose with its native character sets.

Greetings verdyp

Thank you for the informative response. I figured the shift-JIS out a couple of weeks ago, and understand somewhat of what your talking about. I have already run into this problem.

But I have noticed if I switch everything over to Japanese/Nippon including the keyboard I don't have as many problems. I do this once or twice a week just to check out LW and Japanese websites.

BTW: Even though I'm not from Japan I have lived there. I have also taken the Japanese translation test: 2 in the USA and 1 in Japan - Yamasa Institute. Results. Both USA - 100% speaking, 100% reading, 100% writing. Yamasa Institute 98% speaking, 99% reading, 97% writing. The reading and writing portions encompassed all 4 written forms.

I may not know much in certain areas, but in others I'm quite able to hold my own.