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It has nothing to do with the IME thing. This is just a regular font like any
other font there is, it just happens to have Japanese letters as the font
characters. The only reason I mentioned that it was Japanese at all is to
explain why it's so important to me to be able to have access to these
characters. I'm studying Japanese and need to be able to see and use these
characters. But this problem is no different than if I was trying to get the
mathematical symbols that Times New Roman carries within it that are only in
Unicode. Like I said, I don't understand why it's giving me this trouble, it
never did before when I had to retrieve a unicode character from another font.
I did a search for Unicode software and I found programs that could do what
I wanted but didn't find any that would allow me to use that feature without
paying around $30 for it and I'm wondering if there's an easier way.
"Wesley Vogel" wrote:
> What do I mean?
>
> I mean that I can't help you.
>
> I do not have that font, so I do not know if yours is damaged or not.
>
> Do you have the Japanese language installed?
>
> Do you have the Japanese keyboard layout or Input Method Editor (IME)
> installed?
>
> [[Regional and Language Options overview
>
> You can also choose from a large number of input languages and text
> services, such as different keyboard layouts, Input Method Editors, and
> speech and handwriting recognition programs. When you switch to another
> input language, some programs offer special features, such as font
> characters or spelling checkers designed for different languages.
>
> input language
> The specification of the language you want to type in. Some programs that
> are designed for Windows recognize this setting. When you add a new input
> language, a keyboard layout for that language is also added.
>
> text service
> A program that enables a user to enter or edit text. Text services include
> keyboard layouts, handwriting and speech recognition programs, and Input
> Method Editors (IMEs). IMEs are used to enter East Asian language characters
> with a keyboard.
>
> Input Method Editor (IME)
> Programs used to enter the thousands of different characters in written
> Asian languages with a standard 101-key keyboard. An IME consists of both an
> engine that converts keystrokes into phonetic and ideographic characters and
> a dictionary of commonly used ideographic words. As the user enters
> keystrokes, the IME engine attempts to identify which character or
> characters the keystrokes should be converted into.
>
> However, if you want to enter or display text in the East Asian languages
> (Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) or the complex script and right-to-left
> languages (Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, the Indic languages, Thai, or
> Vietnamese), you can install the language files from the Windows CD-ROM or,
> if applicable, a network.
>
> Each language has a default keyboard layout, but many languages have
> alternate versions. Even if you do most of your work in one language, you
> might want to try other layouts. In English, for example, typing letters
> with accents might be simpler with the U.S.-International layout. ]]
>
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/lang_multilang_doc_overview.mspx
>
> To install East Asian language files on your computer
>
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/int_pr_install_languages.mspx
>
> To add another keyboard layout or Input Method Editor (IME)
>
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/input_kbd_add_kbd_layout.mspx
>
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:68B34869-55E2-49C7-95E9-22013DFED2CD@microsoft.com,
> CallistaZM <CallistaZM@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> > What do you mean? The font is called Hiragana Regular. The characters in
> > question are Hiragana (Japanese) letters. Most of the Hiragana set is in
> > the regular keyboard with some in Alt codes. Just a few are inaccessable
> > to me, but without them, I don't have access to the whole set of Hiragana
> > letters.
> >
> >
> > "Wesley Vogel" wrote:
> >
> >> Do these characters have a name?
> >>
> >> A Font type?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Hope this helps. Let us know.
> >>
> >> Wes
> >> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> >>
> >> In news:922AA1A7-5B07-4AFA-9DC3-4C50C0F44312@microsoft.com,
> >> CallistaZM <CallistaZM@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> >>> I have kind of an odd/tough question. I have a font with several
> >>> characters that are encoded only in Unicode...I think. When I open up
> >>> Character Map, I can see the characters there and it of course gives me
> >>> the Unicode numbers for it. These characters have no corresponding
> >>> keyboard key or Alt code. They appear to be solely Unicode. Normally, in
> >>> such a case, in the Character Map I can hit Select and Copy and then
> >>> paste the character in whatever text program I want. For some reason
> >>> though, I can't with these characters. I don't know if the font is
> >>> damaged or what. I've tried everything I can think of but it won't allow
> >>> me to use them. Is there a way to straight type in a Unicode character
> >>> given the Unicode coding numbers or is the Select and Copy the only way
> >>> to access these? confused and annoyed
> >>
> >> --
> >> Hope this helps. Let us know.
> >>
> >> Wes
> >> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> >>
> >> In news:5127B46E-146D-42AF-8523-F328FAB5162E@microsoft.com,
> >> CallistaZM <CallistaZM@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> >>> I have kind of an odd/tough question. I have a font with several
> >>> characters that are encoded only in Unicode...I think. When I open up
> >>> Character Map, I can see the characters there and it of course gives me
> >>> the Unicode numbers for it. These characters have no corresponding
> >>> keyboard key or Alt code. They appear to be solely Unicode. Normally, in
> >>> such a case, in the Character Map I can hit Select and Copy and then
> >>> paste the character in whatever text program I want. For some reason
> >>> though, I can't with these characters. I don't know if the font is
> >>> damaged or what. I've tried everything I can think of but it won't allow
> >>> me to use them. Is there a way to straight type in a Unicode character
> >>> given the Unicode coding numbers or is the Select and Copy the only way
> >>> to access these? confused and annoyed
> >>
> >> --
> >> Hope this helps. Let us know.
> >>
> >> Wes
> >> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> >>
> >> In news:EE49E4AF-713C-485D-A20E-EB6D0D3E1003@microsoft.com,
> >> CallistaZM <CallistaZM@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> >>> I have kind of an odd/tough question. I have a font with several
> >>> characters that are encoded only in Unicode...I think. When I open up
> >>> Character Map, I can see the characters there and it of course gives me
> >>> the Unicode numbers for it. These characters have no corresponding
> >>> keyboard key or Alt code. They appear to be solely Unicode. Normally, in
> >>> such a case, in the Character Map I can hit Select and Copy and then
> >>> paste the character in whatever text program I want. For some reason
> >>> though, I can't with these characters. I don't know if the font is
> >>> damaged or what. I've tried everything I can think of but it won't allow
> >>> me to use them. Is there a way to straight type in a Unicode character
> >>> given the Unicode coding numbers or is the Select and Copy the only way
> >>> to access these? *confused and annoyed*
>
>