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(WFP 5) Japanese-specific characters
Thread poster: mlts
mlts
mlts
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May 11, 2018

Hi all,

I'm doing translation between Japanese and English. Some Japanese-specific characters appear as Chinese ones on WFP. After a translated document is cleaned up as a Word file, they are all correct characters, but I want to make sure that characters I'm using are correct as I am translating.

I tried other fonts through the Preference function, but it doesn't seem to work.

I'd very much appreciate your input.

Many thanks.
 
esperantisto
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And what is the difference? May 11, 2018

Given the fact that the modern Japanese script is basically Chinese plus kana, you should probably explain the problem in more detail. Anyway, try changing the editor pane font.
 
Dan Lucas
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Really? May 11, 2018

esperantisto wrote:
Given the fact that the modern Japanese script is basically Chinese plus kana, you should probably explain the problem in more detail. Anyway, try changing the editor pane font.

I must admit, as a student of Japanese, that this purported fact had passed me by. To which "Chinese" do you refer?

Regards,
Dan Lucas
 
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Japanese-specific characters May 15, 2018

Here're some examples.

https://www.quora.com/Is-Japanese-Kanji-the-same-as-Chinese-writing
 
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Be specific May 15, 2018

Instead of giving a link to some forum discussion, you’d better be specific about your specific problem. Such references may be interesting and educating, but they don’t provide any clue to your technical problem. Each glyph, should it be Chinese-specific or Japanese-specific, has its own Unicode encoding (for example, 国 and 國 are two different glyphs in spite of conveying essentially the same meaning), so, it’s hard to understand what ... See more
Instead of giving a link to some forum discussion, you’d better be specific about your specific problem. Such references may be interesting and educating, but they don’t provide any clue to your technical problem. Each glyph, should it be Chinese-specific or Japanese-specific, has its own Unicode encoding (for example, 国 and 國 are two different glyphs in spite of conveying essentially the same meaning), so, it’s hard to understand what happens in your case. Try asking a smart question. ▲ Collapse
 


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