Neko?

[Lynx]

Uh.. I can't actually read those symbols, can you help me find the font?

[miyamoto musashi]

alec=hanshoukage but lynx quote=alec quote so lynx=alec?

[Lynx]

I just thought it was funny.

[hanshoukage]

Bah! Didn't you think that I tried Lynx first? This guy beat me to it.

[miyamoto musashi]

ya, he actually made his account like four seconds before you.

[hanshoukage]

I looked him up, he was 2 days before me.

[Sebastian]

(...) Hope your browser supports Kanji! (...)

Just tried all Japanese character encodings in Opera and I see only squeres instead of letters.

[takematsu]

Ground, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void

Ahhhh. Ok, the first three are taken care of already (Ground=Earth, right?)

So, pressing on, with apologies to those who aren't seeing the non-latin characters (hints for dealing with it here)-- that's why I'm writing the pronunciations in western squiggle.

Wind-- 風 "Fuu" or "Kaze".
Void-- Errr.... I always though the zen expression for that was "mu" 無, which can also be expressed as an empty circle (exactly like zero), but for "void", the dictionary offers 虚 and 空, both of which can be pronounced "muna"-- and lots of other ways. The first one has a connotation of "untruth", which seems contrary to the zen sensiblility, but the other seems doctrinarily safe. Deerock has a grounding in Chan Buddhism, which is sort of the Chinese tree from which the branch of Zen grew, if he's still around maybe he can comment.

[miyamoto musashi]

you were quite correct with mu

[Lynx]

Where can I get the fonts.

[Sebastian]

Where can I get the fonts.

Everything needed is in the page Takematsu pointed out (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwj ... rowser_tag), the only problem may be that the links on that page are in the same colour the normal text is. If you are using Opera, just open the sidebar and just beneath "History" you'll find "Links". Click on it and Opera will show you all the links found on that page. If you don't have Opera, then in your web browser settings force the browser to use a predefined style to display links.

[ziritrion]

Hey takematsu, you did learn how to type in Japanese characters! It wasn't so hard, you see?

Where can I get the fonts.

If you're using Internet Explorer on Windows 98, Me or XP, try going to a website with Japanese encoding, like Yahoo! Japan or Megatokyo. If you have the right settings, a window will pop up asking you that the website needs the Japanese Character Set and wether or not you want to download it (I think it's something like a 2.5 MB download). Once installed, you should be able to see Japanese characters no matter what app you're using (the JCS that IE downloaded from Microsoft is for Windows in general, not IE specific).

You can also follow the steps that Sebastian pointed out, although some people might find it a little complicated (BTW, welcome to the Dojo Sebastian!)

If that doesn't help, then you can always trust good ol' Google to help you out when you need it the most .

If you still can't figure it out, email or PM me and I'll try to find another way to help you out.

[Sebastian]

After installing the Gothic Japanese font[url] everything is ok.

[url]http://republika.pl/s_chan/images/japanese.jpg

[takematsu]

Hey takematsu, you did learn how to type in Japanese characters! It wasn't so hard, you see?

Dead easy-- type roman characters into WWWJDIC, highlight, copy, paste.

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