Hi all. My laptop recently went dow (actually i had get a new HDD). Luckily it's a company laptop Anyway, my IT dept does not us the XP install CD. Do you guys have any other suggestion for being able to display kanji/gana with out having to use the XP cd? Thanks all

Leroy

it just installed with XP, mine did. I could be wrong. I know with Win2K you needed the disk, have you tried turning it on in the languages section and or checking your browser is set to accept Japanese ?.

Rich

Everytime I go to a webpage with kanji, I get a popup asking to install a language pack. When I click intall, it then askes me to insert the XP cd. Mt company installs the OS from an image. I have had this issue before, but I HAD the XP cd copied to my HD. Not anymore! I have tried searching the internet, but all I can come up with are programs to change the entire OS to another language. I don't want to do that.

right klick on the text... then you get " encoding"..........pick " Japanese ".
it works for me ( so far , I am running window xp).
As to write in actual kanji like the Daimyo in the message.........that's way beyond my computer skill.

milt THE ronin

Leroy,

I searched a bit online, and am really not sure there is a way to enable Japanese fonts without the CD. Best bet is to see if you can borrow a cd to install the language packs. Someone must have one you can borrow?
I did come across these pages..but am not 100% that they won't ask for the cd. Worth reading through though..especially if you want to type in Japanese fonts too.
http://www.forlink.com.br/sakurasaku/ime_help.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... E24A6F38E8

Brian

Thanks Brian. I'll give it a shot!

It's possible that the XP install files will be on your laptop in a folder somewhere. Try searching for the folder i386.

Both of your suggestions has solved my kanji issue!!!!