Re: Chinese kanji, etc.

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:54:10 +0900, John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:

I'll start with the general questions: Is there any way to input kanji
which are not in current use in Japan in a Japanese computer?

If you're talking about a Japanese computer with a Japanese operating
system, you should have full support for characters supported by the
encoding system you are using. Many dictionaries now give the computer
codes. Thus, for example, if you know that a character's Kuten code is
3875, you can input the character by computer code - in this case you get
馴. Conversely, you could have got the character by entering the JIS code
of 93E9. Had you entered a Kuten code of 8150 or a JIS code of E971, you
would have got the older version of the character: 駲.

It's easier to cut and paste, though. As Jim Breem pointed out a few
months ago, Kenkyusha offers an online service at:

http://kod.kenkyusha.co.jp/service/

You will need to be an advanced member to get the full range of
dictionaries.

I, myself, prefer to have the dictionary on my PC. I use Logo Vista
dictionaries. This URL gives a list of their dictionaries. For example,
the one on the bottom is the 岩波日本史辞典:

http://www.logovista.co.jp/product/search/search_series_dic_pur.html

Using these dictionaries, I can look up a word and drag and drop it and/ or
its meaning into my document.

Phil Yff
.

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