Encode Japanese
July 26th, 2005 by heatherIt’s highly unlikely I’ll be writing in Japanese soon, but this writer looked into encoding Japanese with a lang attribute, to tell Google and audio readers like JAWS that what is there is Japanese. At least in 2003, it was too early, read Encoding Japanese.
Instead he finds a solution by wrapping Romaji in a span tag, with a class that makes it italicized and a title=”" attribute to put in a definition. He gives this as an example:
taiheiyō sensō
That’s friendly. It would be great to add this as a quicktag in Wordpress, which would wrap selected text in the span tag, and prompt user to type in title.
Putting that on my list of things to do.
*ahem*
July 27th, 2005 at 5:57 am
I don’t see why couldn’t start writing in Japanese soon!
Here’s a site for hiragana lessons that are very easy to learn:
http://japanese.about.com/blhira.htm
and here’s one for katakana as well:
http://japanese.about.com/blkatakana.htm
If you want to get started actually typing Japanese into your computer quickly and use Windows XP, I cannot recommend any guide to this more highly than Greggman’s — http://greggman.com/japan/xp-ime/xp-ime.htm#comment96
August 4th, 2005 at 8:48 pm
oh my goodness, you’re right. i can type in japanese!
i use mac os x, so i had to go into the International options in the system preferences (which i got through clicking on the flag near the clock in upper R hand corner). then i activated the kana palette, and also the input methods (romaji, hiragana and katakana).
and now i can type!
部t位t負けsのせんせ！うぇええ！ this makes no sense! wee! i’m so excited. i can’t wait to see how this displays!