write Japanese characters in Windows XP: Installing the Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME)?

How to write Japanese characters in Windows XP: Installing the Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME)?
How to write Japanese characters in Windows XP by following these steps, namely:

Step one installing japanese font

 

 

 

After installing Japanese fonts, the next steps to support in Japanese is to install the Input Method Editor, or IME. With the IME you can write Japanese characters on a computer using a regular keyboard, either hiragana, katakana, and kanji!
With this capability, you can do so many new things! You can easily check the writing of a word without opening dictionary. You may search words in Google and the Japanese Wikipedia Japanese. You can also interact in Japanese-language sites like 2ch or corresponded with Japanese people through email and IM. Of course, you also can use as a starch-kanjinya mysterious element in the design grafismu.Installing the Input Method Editor

Instalasi Input Method Editor

Note: In order to run the steps in this article, before you need to install Japanese fonts that have been described in the article how to install Japanese fonts.
First, go to Control Panel and open Regional and Language Options. If for some reason you can not find it, you can run it via Start - Run ... then entering the command intl.cpl. From the window that appears go to the Languages ​​tab:

From there, click the Details ... button:

From the next window that appears, first press the Add ..., then on the Input select Japanese language. Press OK. You can see that now support for writing Japanese characters have been added:

Next depending on the state of your computer. If the screen is in addition to Japanese language there are only languages ​​that use Latin script, such as English and Bahasa Indonesian, then just delete keyboard support for that language. This is because the Japanese language setting even you can write Latin letters. If you use other languages ​​such as Arabic or Korean, do not delete them because of course the Japanese IME can not be used to write these languages.
In the example above there are only English keyboard settings will be deleted. Click the name of the language, then press the Remove button. If you do not want to delete anything, you might want to change the Default input language to Japanese - Microsoft IME Standard 2002 ver. 8.1 (once again, with the default language of Japan, we still can write Latin letters).
Afterwards press the OK button. Maybe Windows will say that support for writing the currently active language (eg English) can not be deleted right now. If that is the case, or if there are other messages that advise us to restart the computer, then restart the computer.

Language bar settings

After all the above steps, open the program that can be used to type for example Notepad. Then, look for a new item named "language bar" on the taskbar that looks like this:

Language bar shows what language will be used to write. JP means Japanese. If you had already deleted the other languages, or if you have Japanese set as the default, then there will appear JP and nothing you need to change. But if there are active is a language other than JP, just click the button to change it:

If there is no language bar in the taskbar, try searching all over your screen. There is a possibility he floated somewhere like the following:

If you believe he really lost, you can bring it by right clicking the taskbar and choose Toolbars - Language bar.

Remember, to write the Japanese language, the code is written in the language bar should be JP. If the Japanese language there is not elected, we will not be able to turn his IME.

How to write hiragana

After ensuring that the language bar is active in the Japanese language, start typing a word such as "musume" (daughter):

Seen that still emerging Latin letters. As said before, even with a Japanese setting we can still write Latin letters. To start writing Japanese characters, activate the IME by pressing Alt + ~. ~ Is a button located on the top tab and the left button first. Now try again write "musume" at the bottom:

What you write will be directly converted by the IME to hiragana! Note that under the heading むす め is no bottom line, which means we're still in edit mode. In edit mode, what we write is not sent to the program, such as Notepad.

To send letters hiragana into the program, you simply press Enter:

To re-write the Latin script, just press Alt + ~ again.

Looking for writing kanji and katakana

The word "musume" has the kanji writing. In addition, we could also just wanted to write "musume" using katakana. The way to get both it is very easy.
First, write the desired word such as "musume". To find writing addition hiragananya, you simply press the Spacebar. Later IME will give one other possibility, for example, the kanji for the word "musume" 娘 namely:

If the IME is not an offer you want, just press the spacebar again to see other possibilities:

As before, press Enter after obtaining the desired option. The alternative is to press the numbers listed to the left of the option.
Do not be surprised if for a word, a lot of possibilities to write it. This is because the Japanese voice is limited, so eventually many homophones.
As an exercise, you try to write "Koubou" which kanjinya like this: 工房 (artist work space, studio). Do not get one because it can mean very different. For example, 攻防 also read "Koubou" but means "to attack and defense".

COVER

It can be seen that we can write Japanese on the computer without using the Windows XP Japanese version. With IME, even beginners can start having fun with exotic characters bring to the screen. During inactivity, IME also will not interfere with other computer users who need only Latin letters. Remember that the IME could be used in almost all programs, ranging from Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org to Mozilla Firefox.
IME facility also exists in Windows Vista, various Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, and Mac OS X. Maybe next time will be discussed how to install in Ubuntu. Sometime we'll also discuss tips and tricks that will make a more efficient operation of the IME.
Hopefully this article helpful to you
Happy writing!