Kanji/Kana -> Romaji Software?

[Daniel Krueger]

Hi i'm looking for a software which helps me with converting
Kanji/Kana to Romaji. I need it to convert many Filenames so they stay
readable on my non-japanese Filesystem. I found 2 programs who do
this, but both out of reach.
One is J-Text, looks great! But sadly the price is 150$, way way way
too much for my simple needs. Also they didn't even do their own
library but use public ones, i don't wanna pay for that. Second is
typhoon but that is too old and impossible to even get the demo
anywhere. The same company also put out a japanese word processor and
kanji reader addon (both for free!) but unavaible since years. i hope
somebody can help me. thank you very much!

ps. i don't read/write japanese at all not even kana.

[Paul Blay]

"Daniel Krueger" wrote ...

Post by Daniel Krueger
Hi i'm looking for a software which helps me with converting
Kanji/Kana to Romaji. I need it to convert many Filenames so they stay
readable on my non-japanese Filesystem. I found 2 programs who do
this, but both out of reach.
One is J-Text, looks great! But sadly the price is 150$, way way way
too much for my simple needs.

Eh, might as well get an upgrade to Win XP Home - cost less and
you can have _actual_ Japanese filenames instead of romaji.

For that matter if a Japanese program is expecting subdirectories or
files with names that cannot exist on your system you'd be SOL even
if you had converted them to romaji equivalent.

[Jed Rothwell]

Post by Paul Blay
Eh, might as well get an upgrade to Win XP Home - cost less and
you can have _actual_ Japanese filenames instead of romaji.

I have found that does not work well with many programs, such as the back-up
program "Backer" (Cordes Devolopment). The operating system iteslf, XP Home
or Professional, can display kanji titles, and so can Microsoft Word, but
many other programs cannot.

- Jed

[Paul Blay]

"Jed Rothwell" wrote ...

Post by Jed Rothwell

Post by Paul Blay
Eh, might as well get an upgrade to Win XP Home - cost less and
you can have _actual_ Japanese filenames instead of romaji.

I have found that does not work well with many programs, such as the back-up
program "Backer" (Cordes Devolopment). The operating system iteslf, XP Home
or Professional, can display kanji titles, and so can Microsoft Word, but
many other programs cannot.

Have you set it to use Japanese coding as default for non-unicode programs?

[Jed Rothwell]

Post by Paul Blay

Post by Jed Rothwell
I have found that does not work well with many programs, such as the back-up
program "Backer" (Cordes Devolopment). . . .

Have you set it to use Japanese coding as default for non-unicode programs?

No, I have not heard of this option. I do not know much about Windows. Let
me give that a shot and test "Backer" (from Germany) and "Namo Web Editor"
(from Korea). Let's see . . . You must mean the option under "Regional and
Language Options, Advanced, Select a language . . ." I hesitate to change
that from "English (United States)" but I'll give it a shot.



Yes! That works remarkably well. "Backer" does not display the filename
correctly, but it copies the file correctly. Namo works. Several programs
display the Yen sign instead of backslash, which is normal for Japanese
keyboards and file displays. Internet Explorer seems to be doing a lot more
beeping while displaying Japanese web pages. Ha! Even Word Perfect 11
works -- a miracle.



Thank you. That's helpful advice for people who do a lot of Japanese on U.S.
computers. However, I think I will set this computer back to "English
(United States)." I can still create and read Japanese documents in Word and
other programs.



- Jed

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Post by Daniel Krueger
Hi i'm looking for a software which helps me with converting
Kanji/Kana to Romaji. I need it to convert many Filenames so they stay
readable on my non-japanese Filesystem. I found 2 programs who do
this, but both out of reach.

Do a Google search on "kakasi".