Idiosyncrasies of typing Japanese

[neothe1]

Hi, yet again,

I've had some questions about typing Japanese. I had already figured out the "little hiragana character" situation a while ago (e.g. te + x + i = ティ). Likewise, I know that pressing F7 converts my hiragana to katakana (e.g. まいく + F7 = マイク). I have also recently learned that on non-Japanese keyboards, ALT + ~ switches the input from romaji to hiragana when you are already in Japanese IME mode.

Now, can someone please tell me how the heck I can type the interpunct? That's the "middle of the line dot" that we use to separate foreign fords, for example (e.g. my last name and first name: クメルニツキー·マイク). Where the hell is "·" on the keyboard?

Secondly, how do I type づ?! "tsu" gives me つ. "zu" gives me ず. How do I get it to display づ?

Lastly, if anyone out there has any other Windows IME (romaji > Japanese) typing advice, please point me in the right direction.

Cheers,

-- Mike

[yuriyuri]

Originally Posted by neothe1

Now, can someone please tell me how the heck I can type the interpunct? That's the "middle of the line dot" that we use to separate foreign fords, for example (e.g. my last name and first name: クメルニツキー·マイク). Where the hell is "·" on the keyboard?

I use my / key to get ・

Originally Posted by neothe1

Secondly, how do I type づ?! "tsu" gives me つ. "zu" gives me ず. How do I get it to display づ?

づ = du

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ぢ = di
ヴ = vu
ゑ = we (You have to press space to convert because it is not in use anymore)
ゐ = wi (You have to press space to convert because it is not in use anymore)

As you already know x + kana gives you a small version.
This also works with l + kana: l + tu = っ


This isn't so useful in most cases I think, but You can also type different symbols normally by typing a related word.
For example:
♪ = おんぷ
♭ = ふらっと
Or you can convert おんがく to any music symbols

★ = ほし

These ones might be more useful to you:

My \ and key gives me ￥

「」= []
You can convert these to【】『』etc

To get … convert ・・・

You can convert numbers, for example:
①②③④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨

And for a huge list of lots of symbols convert きごう

Last but not least, although I assume you already know, you can press Esc to cancel kanji conversions etc.

[neothe1]

Oh, man! どもありがとう！How do you say "duh" in Japanese? ＾＿＾ j/k