Japan: SignBank Menu Translations
Mark Penner
penner at WORLD.CBI.ORG
Thu Sep 12 02:54:52 UTC 2002
> Funny, Mark...your original document you sent several days ago came
> inside my email in Japanese...but this message below came in as
> garbage! So sorry about that...hard to know why...what did you do
> last time? ;-))
>
> Val ;-)
Hmmmm?? What I did was copy and paste from the previous post, and then add
the missing translation for "fill". That's all I did differently. That one
went straight to you--today's went via the list. That's the only difference
I can think of.
Mark
>
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>
>
> At 19:05 02/09/11 -0700, you wrote:
> > Chinese, Japanese and Arabic are three languages that do pose several
> > problems for me with SignBank. So I have decided to focus first on
> > the languages that use the Roman alphabet ....sorry to make you
> > wait....
>
> I don't mind waiting at all. I can send you .pdf files if you w
> ant/needthem that way.
>
> Meanwhile, the problem with #43 "fill" is solved! Thanks for your
> explanation. I translated i t"White/Black Change", which is only four
> characters in Japane se so worksjust fine. Maybe that will help other
> translators.
>
> "Variation" I'm still not sure what to do with.
>
> > Regarding using SignBank for your Japanese databases...do you own
> > FileMaker in Japanese, Mark? If you really want to use SignBank long
> > term, you will need to purchase FileMaker...the Japanese version:
>
> No, I don't own it yet, but will be willing to tackle it when t he
> timecomes that its necessary. Thanks for the web-site address.
>
> If you want to read the characters below, (my tentative transla
> tion,being checked by a Japanese computer user), I think Windo ws now
> has anautomatic sensor that detects foreign script and tells you
> that you needto download ____________ to be able to read it, and has
> a blue-lettercode that takes you to the downl oad site. This is what
> happened to mewhen I tried to open a fi le that contained Chinese
> once. I have Win 98,so imagine anything after that will have the
> feature too. Maybe not.
>
> That's about what I know.
>
> Let me know if you can read it.
>
> Mark
>
> PS I just sent a few lines to test the system without overwhelm ing
> thewhole list with unintelligible gibberish.
>
> 01. $B!!8 at 8l (J
> 02. $B!!9q (J
> 03. $B!!%*!<%9%H%i%j%"!!!!!!1Q8l (J
> 04. $B!!%*!<%9%H%j%"!!!!%I%$%D8l (J
> 05. $B!!%Y%k%.!<!!!!%U%i%s%I%k8l (J
> 06. $B!!%Y%k%.!<!!!!%U%i%s%98l (J
> 07. $B!!% $B!& (J%j%S%"!!!!%9%Z%$%s8l (J
> 08. $B!!%V%i%8%k!!!!%]%k%H%,%k8l (J
> 09. $B!!%+%J%@!!!!1Q8l (J
> 10. $B!!%+%J%@!!!!%U%i%s%98l (J
> 11. $B!!%3%m%s%S%"!!!!%9%Z%$%s8l (J
> 12. $B!!%G%s%^!<%/!!!!%G%s%^!<%/8l (J
> 13. $B!!%(%k%5%k%P%I%k!!!!%9%Z%$%s8l (J
>
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> Mark Penner
> Tokyo, Japan
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