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Bishipu.
Is there a web site that gives us the Japanese charectors?
BISHOP
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Which character set would you like? The Japanese utilize 3 different character sets.
1. Hiragana, which consists of 80 different characters and is used to phonetically spell japanese words or modify Kanji.
2. Katakana, originally the male phonetic alphabet. It consists of 79 characters and is used to phonetically spell foreign words like Bigu Maku.
3. Kanji. This is a modification of the chinese alphabet and consists of millions of combinations of several hundred base characters. When you see a single character on TV, it is usually a combination of several. As an example, sun is a single character. However, morning consists of sun, start, and a few other modifiers to create a single character.
Anyone interested in seeing those character sets, merely enable foreign character sets in windows and go to any japanese site. Also, the scrolling characters that you see on screen in the Matrix movies are Hiragana.
Here is the morning sun newspaper website for you. (Asahi Shinbun) This is the japanese version of the site.
[url]http://www.asahi.com/[/url]
And the english version....
[url]http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html[/url]