Freakin Windows
August 15th, 2006
I have a simple problem. I want to view japanese characters under Windows. I am implementing unicode support in a new program I am working on and I need to test it with japanese. I managed to get it working under linux ‘yum groupinstall “japanese support”‘ which I though was tricky to figure out. Well imagine the trouble in windows. I fool heartedly went to the MS web site. It seems that people only use japanese in Office XP. That was news to be but none of the MS downloads work. I eventually found a web site which had instructions, but the only way I can install the 230 meg of required crap is from the windows install CD. I have the CD, but I don’t have a CD-ROM in the computer. I hate windows.
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1. Lucien | August 15th, 2006 at 11:10 am
I just hate working with different languages.
I did a web site in Japanese once. *Major* pain in the proverbial.
Finding and then installing all the correct language support bits was a pain. Finding an editor that woudl work with Japanese was a pain.
And once the thing was finally working, I couldn’t proof read a bit of it, so I just had to hope the translator had done their job right, and that I hadn’t edited anything in the middle of words etc.
I would not willinly work on a multi lingual site again without *lots* of help from a native speaker, who ideadl would be a coder as well.
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