Japanese Notepad (FREEWARE)

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The Japanese Notepad (JN) is a Japanese editor for those who use Microsoft Windows Simplified Chinese Edition, and want to input Japanese characters including kana and kanji. This illustrated webpage quickly teaches you how to use JN.

For Users Familiar With Romaji

JN consists of 3 parts: [Kana Keyboard] at the bottom, [Input Area] at the middle, [Output Area] at the top. If you are familiar with romaji, you can enter romajis in [Input Area], press [Enter] key, the corresponding kanas will be displayed in [Output Area].

For Users Unfamiliar With Romaji

If you are unfamiliar with romaji, you can click on the keys of [Kana Keyboard] one by one, the corresponding kanas will be displayed in [Output Area].

Hiragana And Katakana

Click on [K] button to activate the katakana keyboard, then you can input katakana. Click on [H] button to activate the hiragana keyboard again. You also can press [Esc] key to shift from one keyboard to another keyboard.

Kanji

You can enter kanji and romaji mixedly in [Input Area]. Kanji used in China is automatically converted to Kanji used in Japan.

Punctuation Marks

The following English punctuation marks (left) are automatically converted to the Japanese ones (right).

Click on [Help] button to display the help information which you are reading now.

Click on [Quit] button to terminate JN. The Japanese text in [Output Area] will be saved to the disk file JN.TXT.

Troubleshooting

JN works under Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Simplified Chinese Edition. If you use other editions, for example, English edition, you must install a Simplified Chinese support software, such as Microsoft Global IME, in order to enter and display kana and kanji.

If JN can't work on your computer, please manually copy the system file MSVBVM60.DLL (1.32MB) from the system folder of another computer, by using a floppy disk, to the system folder of your computer. The system folder usually is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM (95/98/ME) or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (NT/2000/XP/2003).

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