Japanese for Windows

 
 
Installing the Japanese Fonts on Your Computer

To install the Japanese fonts, you must have the Windows CD that came with your computer. The following instructions are for Windows XP.
   
  1. Open Regional and Language Options in the Control panel.
   
  2. On the Languages tab, under Supplemental language support, select the Install files for East Asian languages check box.
   
 
 
  3. Click OK or Apply. You will be prompted to insert the Windows CD-ROM. After the files are installed, you must restart your computer.
   
4. After you install the East Asian languages fonts, you must add the individual languages for which you want to enter and display text. To do so, open the Regional and Languages Options in Control Panel again. On the Languages Tab, under Text services and input languages, click Details.
 
   
 
  5. Under Installed services, click Add. In the Input language list, click the language for the keyboard layout or Input Method Editor you want to add.
   
 
     
  6. Once you have completed these steps, you will notice a blue "EN" (standing for English) in the lower right corner of your computer screen. If you click on it, you will see the new Japanese options you just added. Once you are in an application such as Microsoft Word, select the Japanese option and begin to type.
     
   
     
  8. If you select "Show the Language bar" at the bottom of the menu, the language bar will appear at the top of your screen.
     
   
 
 
Setting up Netscape to View Sites in Japanese

To view Web Sites in Japanese, you must first install the Japanese language fonts on your computer (see above). Once installed, you can configure Netscape to use these fonts when necessary.

 
  1. While in Netscape, go to the Preferences option under the Edit menu.
   
  2. Under Appearance, select Fonts.
   
 

3. Click on the "For the Encoding" button and select Japanese.

   
   

   
  4. Make sure that Japanese fonts are selected for both Variable and Fixed width fonts and click OK. If they are not selected, simply select them from the font menus. Next click on the button which states "Use my fonts, overriding page-specified fonts". Click OK.
   
   
   
  5. You can test these fonts by visiting a Japanese Web site such as http://www.asahi.com. You should be able to view these pages in Japanese.
   
  6. If you visit a site that you know is in Japanese yet your browser is displaying nonsense characters, select the Character Set option under the View menu and select Japanese. Sometimes the browser does not recognize that it should display a Japanese font, and choosing the Character Set will help it to do so.
 
   
 
 
Setting up Internet Explorer to View Sites in Japanese
To view Web Sites in Japanese, you must first install the Japanese language fonts on your computer (see above). Internet Explorer should already be configured to automatically use the correct fonts when needed. To check, try the following:
 
  1. While in Internet Explorer, go to the Internet Options under the Tools menu.
   
 
  2. Click on the Fonts tab at the bottom.
   
 
  3. Click on the Language Script bar, and select Japanese. Make sure that a Japanese Font displays.
   
 
 
Reading and Sending E-mail in Japanese using Bates Web Mail
To use Japanese in your e-mail, you must first install the Japanese language fonts on your computer (see above). When using Webmail for Japanese, you may find that the results vary. Try the suggestions below, however, due to different encoding methods, you may have difficulty reading some Japanese messages. If you have messages that you cannot read, contact Bill Maiert in the Language Resource Center.
 
  1. You must use Internet Explorer to read and send Japanese e-mail.
   
  2. Log in to Webmail at webmail.bates.edu.
   
  3. To read messages that were sent to you in Japanese, you must change the Character Set to Japanese after you've logged into Webmail. To do this, select the Character Set option under the View menu in Internet Explorer and select Japanese. After doing this, your browser will refresh and any Japanese messages will appear in Japanese.
   
 

 

 

   
  4. To compose and send a message, click on the compose button in Webmail. Choose Japanese from the blue language menu bar in the lower right corner of Windows and type your message. Since you've already selected the Character Set in step 3, you shouldn't need to do this again, however, if you try typing in Japanese and it doesn't work, try changing the Character Set to Japanese again. Click send when finished.