That is terrific! I actually have studied some Japanese, and this will be very helpful to me<div>if I try to keep up with it. </div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Raju Bitter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajubitter@googlemail.com">rajubitter@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Henry, there are 2 Firefox plugins which I tested:<div>Furigana Injector<br><div><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6178" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6178</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>xHTML Ruby Support</div><div><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1935" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1935</a></div><div><br></div><div>With those extensions you can navigate to a page containing Japanese and the Furigana will be displayed for Kanjis in the dictionary. Here's a screenshot of the <a href="http://CNN.co.jp" target="_blank">CNN.co.jp</a> site with Furigana switched on:</div>
<div><img height="616" width="890" src="cid:461BF2DA-C0C5-469D-B928-A83BB2E0EA71"></div><div><br></div><div>That's fantastic for anyone studying Japanese! Depends on the dictionary quality of course, since there multiple ways to pronunce Kanjis.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Raju</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jan 31, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Raju Bitter wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
Right, that's Furigana. :-)<div><br><div><div>On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">That's very cool. I used to see those annotations in the manga comics, they called them 'furigana' I think.<div>
<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Raju Bitter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajubitter@googlemail.com" target="_blank">rajubitter@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Henry,<br>
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This might be interesting for you as well, if you are looking into improved text components.<br>
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I just ran into the <ruby> tag in HTML 5: <a href="http://webkit.org/blog/948/ruby-rendering-in-webkit/" target="_blank">http://webkit.org/blog/948/ruby-rendering-in-webkit/</a><br>
"A ruby annotation is a short piece of text in smaller font, written directly above or below or – with vertical text – to either side of the base text. It is most often used in East Asian typography in order to provide further information. Most commonly it shows the pronounciation of Chinese characters."<br>
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You probably know that from Japan, the annotation above the Kanjis. Would be valuable for OpenLaszlo apps using Japanese, Chinese, ...<br>
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- Raju<br>
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