Japanese characters on OO.o presentation

[robertlaferla at comcast.net (Robert La Ferla)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Last night, Rob Luoma asked us about Japanese characters in OpenOffice.org. 
> I think the follow web site should explain.
> http://ja.openoffice.org/
>
> However, if you want to create an English document with some japanese 
> characters, Novell has a cool tips:
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14933.html
>
> Obviously, you need to have the proper fonts installed. 
>   

I regularly use OpenOffice on Windows to input Japanese text.  I haven't 
tried it under Linux in a while so I don't quite remember how it all 
works.  However, you do need (1) Japanese font(s), (2) a Japanese Input 
Manager (e.g. canna) and (3) You need to use the proper character 
encoding in your documents.  i.e. UTF-8 (Japanese, English and many 
other languages) or JIS (Japanese).  BTW - When sending e-mail in 
Japanese, use ISO-2022-JP for your encoding to avoid complaints about 
mojibake.

More resources:

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html