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今日は - signs

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:41 pm
by Sascha
今日は。わたしはザツャです。初恋。

What can you read here? Japanese signs, boxes or "?"s ?
It's not important, the board language is English, but I'm interested. I wonder wether the forum can print these signs.

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:10 pm
by Holger
> 今日は。わたしはザツャです。初恋。

Looks indeed like Hiragana (or Katakana?) -- what does this mean in English? :-)

> What can you read here? Japanese signs, boxes or "?"s ?

Looks right in the post itself, but not in the post's title! :-o

> It's not important, the board language is English, but I'm interested.
> I wonder wether the forum can print these signs.

Apparently it can, at least partly. It even works in my browser (Konqueror) -- I added the first line of this post using cut+paste...

Re: 今日は - signs

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:14 pm
by Zomis
Sascha wrote:今日は。わたしはザツャです。初恋。

What can you read here? Japanese signs, boxes or "?"s ?
It's not important, the board language is English, but I'm interested. I wonder wether the forum can print these signs.
I only see question marks. 17 of them to be exact. I guess the board can print these signs, but my browser can't (I guess I don't have that language pack installed).

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:35 am
by Davacardo
I'm pretty sure whether or not you can view them is based on the installed languages on your computer (at least, if you have Windows).

I used to not be able to see any Asian characters on my computer - they came as out as boxes. After a full install of Office 2003 though, I now can.

So I see Japanese characters.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:34 am
by Sascha
> Looks indeed like Hiragana (or Katakana?) -- what does this mean in >English? :-)

It's both, Hiragana and Katakana and Kanji (Kanji = the chinese signs)
You read it "konnichi wa. Watashi wa Sascha desu. Hatsukoi"
In English: "Hello/Good day. I'm Sascha. First love."

(I only wrote "first love" because I like the chinese signs! :lol: )

Yes, I learn this interesting language because it seems me to be useful, even if Chinese would be more useful (because it's more popular).

Here's your Nick in Katakana: ホルゲル (Holger)

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:36 am
by Sascha
Ah, and Zomis,
d'you actually read your name like "Tsomis" or "Somis" or like what?

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:53 pm
by Alan
I used to not be able to see any Asian characters on my computer - they came as out as boxes. After a full install of Office 2003 though
This is just a missing font problem. If you ever want to fix this without reinstalling anything, just visit a few Asian websites and it'll ask you to download the font if you don't have it.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:22 pm
by Holger

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:34 pm
by Holger
> Yes, I learn this interesting language because it seems me to be useful,
> even if Chinese would be more useful (because it's more popular).

Very cool! :-)

Watashi wa hotondo nihongo o hanase masen! ("I almost speak no Japanese". Unfortunately! :-( )

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:34 pm
by Holger
> Here's your Nick in Katakana: ズワカルド

BTW: Who's nick was this exactly?

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:03 pm
by Sascha
Sry, I've looked at the name of Davacardo, that's his name. Yours is that:
ホルゲル (Holger)

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:12 pm
by Sascha
Rocksndiamonds means this:
岩石金剛石
(gansekikongōseki)