Dokugan Ryuu-oh: Goujun Appreciation Month

[flemmings]

OIC. this is why I feel urges to write Gaiden gen. Well, and also 'Goujun and Goukou At Home' in some vague fashion. Clearly I am prescient.

(I wonder what XP's Japanese wordpack will be like, when using Vista's involves so many hoops my spirit faints within me. In Win 9* you clicked the JA button and it offered you a menu. That was far too simple for the MS techies; now you must place language bars somewhere on your page and do something else to make them work. And google for instructions because MS isn't going to tell. All this being by way of explanation why I wrote dokugan ryuuoh (one-eyed dragonking) in romaji up there.)

Comments

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

WinXP has the language bars, but I remember them being less of a pain to set up than Win98. Unfortunately I don't remember any of the details, having finally been convinced to go over to the dark side because Mac Japanese support is much better (also: prettier fonts.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I remember no installation pain with Win98. Download and run. But then there were no bars, just the pop-up menu. Which is how I like it, at least online.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You can minimize the language bar and it turns into a button on your taskbar, which you then click on to change languages. (Then if you select Japanese you get a selection of hiragana/katakana/and so on.)

The major difference iirc is that the language is set by program. So if you're typing in Japanese in your browser and you then open Word, you have to set the button to Japanese a second time if the default is English.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The extra hoop in vista is that you have to click input mode on the language bar to make JP change out of alphanumeric, so the language bar must be visible. Clicking on the minimized JP button doesn't give me the option to change to hiragana or katakana, unlike Win98's language pack.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

After you use it a few times, though, it learns which buttons you click and displays them in minimized view. When I change it to JP it only shows that, the IME button, and the Input Mode. In English it shows EN and the keyboard button for switching between US English and Canadian French. The JP/EN/CH button is just for switching between languages, basically.

(You could also set up keyboard shortcuts for all these but I'm far too lazy to remember them. XD)