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This help page will help you install Japanese character sets so that your computer will display them properly on the internet in your web browser as all modern operating systems and web browsers support Japanese fonts. Throughout Wikipedia, Japanese characters are used in many different articles. Many computers with English or other Western operating systems do not show them by default, but most require a minimal amount of work to install or activate the capability.
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If you came here by clicking a small ? near some Japanese characters (called kanji or kana), here is an explanation of how the Japanese is formatted with the English and romanization. When Japanese is included in an article on Wikipedia, it is almost always placed within a template which helps to standardize the appearance of the Japanese characters, as well as the translation and romanization of those characters. If you look at the code of the page (by clicking on the Edit tab at the top of the page or on the Edit link for that particular section, you will see something like what appears on the Code line in the following table:
This template marks the Kanji segment as being in Japanese Kanji, which helps web browsers and other user agents to display it correctly. The template uses the following parameters
extra=extra2=. It is only useful in ";" definitions (extra2 will be displayed without bold, whereas text following the template will get the bold).Regular use:
Without English:
With extra2:
Without extra2:
If you have questions regarding Japanese characters or the use of this template, please post your question on the talk page of WikiProject Japan.
Installing the ttf-kochi-mincho package will add support for displaying Japanese text in the Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu distribution. You can do this with the following command:
apt-get install ttf-kochi-minchoMore fonts can be installed with this command:
apt-get install ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-mikachan ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-vlgothicInstall the appropriate ttfonts packages.
For Fedora Core 3, the packages are ttfonts-zh_TW (traditional Chinese), ttfonts-zh_CN (simplified Chinese), ttfonts-ja (Japanese) and ttfonts-ko (Korean). For example,
As of Fedora Core 4, you need fonts-chinese, fonts-japanese and/or fonts-korean.
With X.Org 7.x and above, install the package x11-fonts/font-jis-misc:
Please note that the package version may be different. Alternatively, this can be easily accomplished by installing from the ports tree:
Install a Japanese font package, for example one of these:
By default, all necessary fonts and software are installed in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar (2002) and higher.
For Mac OS X 10.1 multilingual software updates are available as free downloads from Apple's website. The Asian Language Update will install support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Install one or several Japanese font packages. The most common is fonts-ttf-japanese, but in addition you can also install fonts-ttf-japanese-extra, fonts-ttf-japanese-ipamona and fonts-ttf-japanese-mplus_ipagothic.
Make sure you have UTF-8 fonts enabled, as they may not be if you have upgraded from a former version of Mandrake/Mandriva.
If you install it from DVD, you don’t need to install anything.
Your system should offer to download Asian fonts by default while viewing pages in those languages, just as long as you're using Internet Explorer. [1]
Otherwise, update your system manually with the language support packs.
A Windows CD-ROM is needed while installing support for East Asian languages, even if it's not the one used during installation. (Non-East Asian localizations only, as those from East Asia install Japanese support natively.)
Alternatively, you can download the Japanese language pack by itself from Microsoft. No disc is needed for this option.
Both Vista and Windows 7 include native OS support for displaying Japanese text by default. In order to input Japanese on a non-Japanese version of the OS, however, the Japanese input method editor must be enabled from the Region and Language (Windows 7) or Regional and Language Options (Vista) section of the Control Panel.