Japanese Help

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, "Dave Cragg"  wrote:

>> Has anyone found a reliable way to display a text in MC that contains a mix
>> of single and double byte characters?  I'm running up against a major
>> deadline (Friday) so thanks in advance for any suggestions.

> I've only been able to display Japanese text in Windows in Metacard
> that was shift-JIS encoded. (Fairly standard for Japanese on Windows
> and Macs.) This allows single-byte Roman in the normal low ASCII
> range, and both will display in Metacard by just setting the font of
> the field to a Japanese font.

Hey it's worth a try -- thanks Dave.

On a related note, I had the client save out "raw" Japanese text to use as
my source text.  This was the technique I've used in the past with Chinese
but apparently Japanese works differently.  Anyway, now that I've got this
format, I'm having a hard time converting it back into legible Japanese
(Word, WordPad, etc).  Got any ideas on how I might do this?  (I have access
to both Windows and Mac if that helps.)

This is all very infuriating -- when I get Japanese text documents, I can't
convert them into plain text files, nor can I do the reverse...

Thanks & Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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