Just to expand what Jonathon said - you need to add support for Japanese in your OS and OO (English, German, Russian etc) will happily allow you to enter Japanese chars in your documents.
Please consider voting for improving language support in OO. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1035 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1034 (you need to register at http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Join) > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Timmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 6:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [users] foreign language support for english versions > > I am using OpenOffice.org v2.1 and want to be able to create > Japanese Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji characters in my > predominantly english based documents. Eventually, as my > knowledge of Japanese improves, I will want to create totally > Japanese language documents. My initial exploration at the > Ooo site shows a "Native Language" support that doesn't seem > to address the student whose language knowledge prohibits the > ability to use a gui that is totally japanese. > > -Ben Timmerman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
