Typing Nihongo

[ramchop]

Global IME is 52 meg and with the shitty connection I've got will take me 7 hours to download. Just why it a program that big required to type Japanese?

Is there something simpler that'll ignore Kanji (as I'm trying desperately to do) and won't have me at work until well after dark?

[Taro Toporific]

Global IME is 52 meg and with the shitty connection I've got will take me 7 hours to download. Just why it a program that big required to type Japanese?

Is there something simpler that'll ignore Kanji (as I'm trying desperately to do) and won't have me at work until well after dark?

If you already have a few Japanese fonts installed in your computer, just try selecting the butt-ugly Japanese "Gothic" and auto-Japanese as your default and encoding selections in your browser and applications. If you're lucky, you ought be able to input Japanese into your English application. Also note, if you have your orginal system and application CDs, you often can go back and optionally add Japanese by reinstalling. This method has worked well in my English copy of MS Office 2000 Pro and IE 6.2 (and much less so in Dreamweaver 6(E) and AutoCad).

Personally, I would just ignore Kanji in terms of input since NO Japanese really wants to see the mess us FG make of their language.

Me? As revenge if forced to type Japanese, I stick to Katakana with spaces and a few choice Kanji since that's the only way I get quoted in Japanese newspapers and subtitled on TV.

[ramchop]

Still having no joy. I can see Japanese so the fonts must be installed, I just can't type it. I'll probably give up and download IME first thing tommorrow morning.

But why is it so big? Is it really that powerful? A similar freeware program for typing Vietnamese letters (OK, there's only a few weird vowels) is less than 1MB.