Octopus Hands - A keyboard chart of Hiragana, kata

[Date Saburou Yukiie]

Greetings all -
Once again I am at it, and have just posted a thing I hope will be usefull.
I made a chart that hopefully people can cut and paste from, with hiragana, katakana, and keyboard combinations on a Windows machine that let you type those goofy vowels with macrons over them.

I will be adding Mac keyboards in the very near future.

Again, the chart is in UTF-8 coding, which should work for most people, and you can reach it at:

www.kabutographics.com in the projects section.

If needed, I will post alternate coded versions...but we should be ok...UTF-8 is W3C compliant.

Hope it is usefull.

Date

[Saionji Shonagon]

Oh, how cool is THAT??

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[Saionji Shonagon]

Date said:

is it working for you? Why the Makiwara-dono?

Yes, it works beautifully! Just got a little over enthusiastic. As you know sometimes happens. Very cool stuff!

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(I am doing that right, aren't I?)

[Date Saburou Yukiie]

ま
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(I am doing that right, aren't I?)

It looks right to me!
Date

[raito]

Not so good for me...

Makiwara's always looks right.

Date's kanji only looks right if I use Japanese encoding (shift JIS). UTF-8 doesn't show the kana correctly.

Date quoting Makiwara screws everything up, unless using shift JIS.

I've had to do too much crap with character coding systems lately (especially figuring out Windows docs that use UCS-2 and UTF-16 interchangably. They are not interchangable).

At home, I use the Windows IME for Japanese. It's loads of fun. Haven't ever posted using it, though.

[Date Saburou Yukiie]

Raito-dono,
Is this any better?
I am also using the Japanese IME on a windows machine at the moment...this should be UTF-8 and readable now?

伊達 三郎 行家
Date

[fujiwara]

I feel inadequate I can't even get the keyboard shortcuts right. This was so much easier on my Mac...

[raito]

Much better. Doesn't show up under the western european encodings, as expected. Shows up both under UTF-8 and shift-JIS (no euc on the home machine).