Learn Japanese
How to Type in Japanese
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Step 2 : How to Start Typing Japanese Mode - Windows 7
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Start your word processing software or E-mail software.
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Here will take Windows Live Mail as an example.
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Click Language mode "EN" of the Language Bar
Select "Japanese".
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Language mode "EN" will be on Japanese mode "JP".
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Click the Input mode "A" and select "Hiragana"
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If you set "non-Unicode Programs" which is an Option Step (See Index menu),
the menu of the Language Bar is in Japanese, if you do not take this option, it is in English.
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This is Hiragana in put mode.
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This is a standard input mode of Japanese language.
You can, of course, type not only Hiragana, but also Katakana and Kanji.
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You can swtich between English mode and Japanese mode by a shortcut, "SHIFT" + "ALT".
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Now, you are ready to type in Japanese.
Let try to type a Japanese word, "Hajimemashite".
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Activate Windows Live Mail.
Select Japanese font.
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Two font faces (4 fonts) are provided as as standard fonts of Windows.
Gothic is a Sans-serif font like Arial in English font.
Mincho is a Serif font like Time New Roman.
P in MS PGothic means "Proportional font".
Here will take MS PGothic.
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If you set "non-Unicode Programs" which is an Option Step (See Index menu),
the font names are in Japanese, if you do not take this option, they are in English.
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Type "hajimemashite (ha_ji_me_ma_shi_te)".
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 will appear on the screen in Hiragana.
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At this point it is underlined.
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Press Enter key.
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The underline disappears and Japanese characters are typed in the document.
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Send the e-mail.
Then, you may be asked if you send your e-mail as Unicode or not.
Select "Send As Unicode".
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Unicode is Multilingual character code. Currently, most softwares support Unicode.
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You can also change the configuration of your email software in order to avoide having the above message every time.
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Click "Menu"
Click "Encoding"
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Click "More"
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Please note down your default encoding before you change it.
In this case it is "Western European (ISO)".
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Select "Unicode (UTF-8)"
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Go to the next step, How to Finish Japanese mode or Remove MS-IME.
