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Curious About the Japanese Keyboard
Hey, i don't wanna offend anyone (not that this would), but, everyone knows that the Nihongo (the japanese language) is writen in symbols. But if each thing has a different symbol, then how do u make words and such on a keyboard? Wouldn't thaty make the Japanese Keyboard EXTREMELY long? I was just wondering out of curiousiy how the people in Japan type on their keyboards. So, anybody willing to clarify?
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03-26-2005, 12:39 AM
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Re: Curious About the Japanese Keyboard
There are certain strokes to each symbol. I'm sure their keyboards are made up of the different strokes or something. Otherwise, I have no idea.
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03-26-2005, 12:41 AM
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Re: Curious About the Japanese Keyboard
Maybe... they have to use the letters instead of the symbols for words. However that would be extremely wrong. Otherwise, as Alonely said, I have NO idea. ^_^
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03-26-2005, 01:45 AM
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Re: Curious About the Japanese Keyboard
I suppose we'll just have to wait for someone who lives in Japan to tell us, eh folks?
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03-26-2005, 02:59 AM
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Re: Curious About the Japanese Keyboard
There's no way in hell they could ever fit single every symbol onto one single unit. It they did, I doubt it would be ecnomical.
I might be wrong, but I think this how it all works: Japanese word processors are programmed to automatically turn a given set of hiragana in Kanji. Once you've got something typed in, a certain keystroke will open up a window of Kanji that the given hiragana could also mean. They're keyboards look alot like ours, fomr what I can tell. They've got the english letters on the key, as well as the hiragana. And, to make certain symbols different, they can use a shift-like function to add "punctuation", as it were, to the symbols. By that I mean the difference between 'hi" (ひ) and "bi" (び). Like I said, I could be wrong. I'm basing this off of the way my IME plug-in for Microsoft Word XP works and an image of a Japanese keyboard. So, yeah. I could be utterly wrong, but that sounds logical to me.
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03-26-2005, 03:54 AM
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Re: Curious About the Japanese Keyboard
Bingo. Japanese keyboards have a key which changes between "Kana" and "English" entry. Kana entry is for the hiragana on the keys, once you type in the hiragana you can use space bar to convert to a certain set of kanji or katakana. If you've ever used the Japanese IME for Windows you would have a good idea of how the entry is done.
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