40 How can I see Japanese characters while surfing the Web?
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This article is from the Japanese FAQ, by TANAKA Tomoyuki tanaka@cs.indiana.edu and Olaf Meeuwissen olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp with numerous contributions by others.
40 How can I see Japanese characters while surfing the Web?
Even if your computer does not have any Japanese capability at
all, you can still see Japanese characters provided you have a
graphical browser. Ka-Ping Yee wrote Shodouka, a mediator that
gets the page you want to see, translates all Japanese characters
to graphics and sends the result to you. Quite simple, isn't it?
Oh, in case you wondered, "shodouka" is Japanese for `calligra-
pher'.
You can find Shodouka at <http://www.lfw.org/shodouka>.
If your computer has some Japanese capability, at least has
access to Japanese fonts somewhere, there is a much simpler
approach. As of version 1.1 Netscape Navigator supports
Japanese. All you have to do, after installing, is set the docu-
ment encoding in the options menu to Japanese (auto-detect).
This ought to work. If not, you can try setting it to shift-JIS
or EUC-JP hand reload the page.
Netscape Navigator runs on virtually any platform. Requirements
for Japanese support vary a bit though. Unix systems only need
Japanese fonts for X-Windows. These should be available from
<ftp://ftp.x.org>. Windows95 and WindowsNT need Japanese exten-
sions which should be available freely from
<ftp://ftp.microsoft.com>. For the Macintosh you may need Kan-
jiTalk or JLK.
[ed.: Can someone verify the Macintosh requirements? I can't
because I only have access to fully Japanese capable Macs here
;-(. Also, comments about other browsers are very welcome.]
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