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Michael
1. I have a spreadsheet that someone gave me that has Japanese characters in
one of the columns.
2. I am trying to convert those characters back into standard unicode. So
if you were to type in the key words "Reconvert Japanese" into the Office
help file, you get a help file link for the following article.
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The following paragraphs are from the excel Office help file
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The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only
available if support for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,
or Korean is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.
To use this feature, you must be using Microsoft IME 2000 or later, or
another Input Method Editor (IME) (IME: A program that enters East Asian text
(Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) into programs
by converting keystrokes into complex East Asian characters. The IME is
treated as an alternate type of keyboard layout.) that supports the feature.
Place the insertion point at the beginning or in the middle of the
characters you want to reconvert, right-click at the beginning or in the
middle of the characters, and then click Reconvert on the shortcut menu
(shortcut menu: A menu that shows a list of commands relevant to a particular
item. To display a shortcut menu, right-click an item or press SHIFT+F10.).
A list of conversion options is displayed.
Click the option you want.
Press ENTER to confirm the conversion
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End of help file article
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3. So, the help file says I need to install the IME for Office 2003
4. Next, I go to the following website in order to download the IME.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...10-4cc1-4040-b710-625a45f2594d&displaylang=en
5. When I try to install it, the install is written in Chinese. After
multiple emails to Microsoft asking their customer service why I can't get an
English install they finally tell me to pay for online support or to go to
one of these forums.
6. I need an English install. Am I going about this all wrong? What do I
need to install in order to convert these characters back into standard
unicode?
7. The purpose of this all is so that I can store the standard unicode
characters in a database and retrieve them for display on a web page. I will
let the browser do the translation.
See following example. You may need to enable japanese in your browser to
see item b correctly.
Key
(a) English version of message.
-> Read the material presented in this online training course.
(b) Japanese version of message
-> ã‚ªãƒ³ãƒ©ã‚¤ãƒ³ç ”?Cコ?[スã«?oã¦ãる資料を必ãšèªã‚€ã“ã¨?B
(c) Unicode characters that represent Japanese characters.
-> Æ’Iƒ“ƒ‰ƒCƒ“Œ¤ÂCÆ’RÂ[Æ’X‚ÉÂo‚Â鎑—¿‚ð•K‚¸“Ç‚Þ‚±‚ÆÂB
one of the columns.
2. I am trying to convert those characters back into standard unicode. So
if you were to type in the key words "Reconvert Japanese" into the Office
help file, you get a help file link for the following article.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The following paragraphs are from the excel Office help file
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only
available if support for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,
or Korean is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.
To use this feature, you must be using Microsoft IME 2000 or later, or
another Input Method Editor (IME) (IME: A program that enters East Asian text
(Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) into programs
by converting keystrokes into complex East Asian characters. The IME is
treated as an alternate type of keyboard layout.) that supports the feature.
Place the insertion point at the beginning or in the middle of the
characters you want to reconvert, right-click at the beginning or in the
middle of the characters, and then click Reconvert on the shortcut menu
(shortcut menu: A menu that shows a list of commands relevant to a particular
item. To display a shortcut menu, right-click an item or press SHIFT+F10.).
A list of conversion options is displayed.
Click the option you want.
Press ENTER to confirm the conversion
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End of help file article
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3. So, the help file says I need to install the IME for Office 2003
4. Next, I go to the following website in order to download the IME.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...10-4cc1-4040-b710-625a45f2594d&displaylang=en
5. When I try to install it, the install is written in Chinese. After
multiple emails to Microsoft asking their customer service why I can't get an
English install they finally tell me to pay for online support or to go to
one of these forums.
6. I need an English install. Am I going about this all wrong? What do I
need to install in order to convert these characters back into standard
unicode?
7. The purpose of this all is so that I can store the standard unicode
characters in a database and retrieve them for display on a web page. I will
let the browser do the translation.
See following example. You may need to enable japanese in your browser to
see item b correctly.
Key
(a) English version of message.
-> Read the material presented in this online training course.
(b) Japanese version of message
-> ã‚ªãƒ³ãƒ©ã‚¤ãƒ³ç ”?Cコ?[スã«?oã¦ãる資料を必ãšèªã‚€ã“ã¨?B
(c) Unicode characters that represent Japanese characters.
-> Æ’Iƒ“ƒ‰ƒCƒ“Œ¤ÂCÆ’RÂ[Æ’X‚ÉÂo‚Â鎑—¿‚ð•K‚¸“Ç‚Þ‚±‚ÆÂB