Re: Japanese support suggestions

[Eric Hildum]

>>>> contacts. For example, I would be able to type the first few (roman) >>>> letters >>>> of the last name in the Address Book listing to highlight the Japanese >>>> contact I'm looking for. This won't work if I enter kanji characters into >>>> the first and last name fields. >>> >>> Try using the Nickname field. Autofill works on the nickname field. >> With a SMOP it might be possible to have roman characters match against the >> furigana field in the above case and when addressing messages. However, >> while I personally would find such a matching useful, I doubt there are >> enough people who need it to make such a feature worthwhile. > > What's a SMOP? Simple Matter of Programming. I was thinking that a last name string like fukuhara could be matched against a furigana pronunciation string of ふくは ら in the address book. Of course, this is a tad more involved in that there are a couple of variations in romaji in use - Hepburn, modified Hepburn, but if the conversions supported by kotoeri were used, that would be sufficient. -- Eric Hildum -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>