Help:Installing Japanese character sets

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For help about Japanese language in general, see Help:Japanese.This help page will help you install Japanese character fonts so that your computer will display Japanese characters properly on the Internet in your web browser. All modern operating systems and web browsers support Japanese characters, and they are used in many different articles throughout Wikipedia. Many computers with English or other Western operating systems do not show Japanese characters by default, but most require only a minimal amount of work to install or activate the capability.

If you came here by clicking the ? near some Japanese characters, and are interested in how Japanese is displayed on Wikipedia, see the Note at the end of this page.



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[hide]  *1 Windows  ==Windows[ edit] == ===Windows Vista, 7, and 8[ edit] ===
 * 1.1 Windows Vista, 7, and 8
 * 1.2 XP and Server 2003
 * 1.3 95, 98, 2000, ME and NT
 * 2 Mac OS X
 * 3 Linux
 * 3.1 Arch Linux
 * 3.2 Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu
 * 3.3 Fedora/Red Hat Enterprise Linux
 * 3.4 Gentoo Linux
 * 3.5 Mandriva Linux 2007
 * 3.6 OpenSUSE 11.4
 * 4 FreeBSD
 * 5 Unicode Japanese fonts
 * 6 Note about displaying Japanese on Wikipedia
 * 6.1 Examples
 * 7 See also

Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 include native OS support for displaying Japanese text by default. 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 and 8) or Regional and Language Options (Vista) section of the Control Panel. ===XP and Server 2003[ edit] ===

A Windows CD-ROM is needed to install support for East Asian languages, even if it is not the one used to install Windows on your computer. (Non-East Asian versions of Windows only, as those from East Asia install Japanese support natively.) ===95, 98, 2000, ME and NT<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Your system should offer to download Asian fonts by default while viewing pages in those languages, provided that you are using Internet Explorer. [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Otherwise, update your system manually with the language support packs. ==Mac OS X<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">By default, all necessary fonts and software are installed in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar (2002) or later.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">For Mac OS X 10.1 or earlier multilingual software updates are available as free downloads from Apple's website. The Asian Language Update will install support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Mac OS X Language Support Updates at apple.com ==Linux<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Arch Linux<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===

===Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 1) pacman -S ttf-sazanami

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Installing the ttf-takao-mincho package will add support for displaying Japanese text in the Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu distribution. You can do this with one of the following commands: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">More fonts can be installed with this command: ===Fedora/Red Hat Enterprise Linux<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 1) apt-get install fonts-takao-mincho
 * 2) aptitude install -P fonts-takao-mincho
 * 1) apt-get install fonts-takao

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">As of Fedora Core 4, you need fonts-chinese, fonts-japanese or fonts-korean. For example, ===Gentoo Linux<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 1) yum install fonts-japanese

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Install a Japanese font package, for example one of these: ===Mandriva Linux 2007<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 1) emerge media-fonts/sazanami
 * 2) emerge media-fonts/mikachan-font-otf

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">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-ipamonaand fonts-ttf-japanese-mplus_ipagothic.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Make sure you have UTF-8 fonts enabled, as they may not be if you have upgraded from a former version of Mandrake/Mandriva. ===OpenSUSE 11.4<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">By default, the Japanese fonts are installed during the DVD standard install.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">If additional Japanese fonts or Japanese language input is needed, the installation of additional packages is required.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In order to install those packages, follow the step-by-step instructions below: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Once the installation is performed a reboot is required in order to use the new language settings. This method is also valid to install support for any other language. ==FreeBSD<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1) Open the YaST Control Center.
 * 2) Select System on the left panel, and then select Language (Blue flag Icon) on the right panel. -A new separate window will open-
 * 3) On the Language window scroll down the "Secondary Languages" list and mark down "Japanese"
 * 4) Click the OK button on the down-right corner. -The installation of the necessary packages for Japanese language support will begin-

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">With X.Org 7.x and above, install the package x11-fonts/font-jis-misc:
 * pkg_add -r font-jis-misc-1.0.0.tbz

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Please note that the package version may be different. Alternatively, this can be easily accomplished by installing from the ports tree:
 * cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/font-jis-misc
 * make install clean

==Unicode Japanese fonts<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Most modern operating systems use Unicode to display Japanese characters. Many fonts have been developed to display Japanese Unicode characters, and many of them are available for downloading over the Internet. <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;"> ==Note about displaying Japanese on Wikipedia<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * List of free Japanese fonts

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">When Japanese is included in an article on Wikipedia, it is almost always placed within the  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: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">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 ===Examples<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * English. Optional. The word as translated into English. Note that this will sometimes be the actual Japanese word due to it being adopted into English.
 * Kanji/Kana. Required. The word in Japanese kanji and/or kana, the logographic writing system.
 * Romaji. Optional. The word in Japanese Romaji, the Romanized syllabic writing system used for foreign words. Also known as a "transliteration".
 * extra. Optional. Can also be expressed as a named parameter, extra=
 * extra2. Optional. Can also be expressed as a named parameter, extra2=. It is only useful in ";" definitions (extra2 will be displayed without bold, whereas text following the template will get the bold).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Regular use: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Without English: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">With extra2: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Without extra2: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">If you have questions regarding Japanese characters or the use of this template, please post your question on the talk page of WikiProject Japan.