KanjiKit Demo Instructions

Complete documentation for the use of KanjiKit is provided with the full version after ordering. The KanjiKit trial version has most of the functions of the full version, but does NOT include the TrueType font. So, don't be suprised when the printout or display is jagged. We provided this so you can test with your applications if you wish. The full version comes with Mincho & Gothic TrueType fonts and the OpenPost and KanVert utilities. The following are some brief instructions to help you work with the KanjiKit Demo 45 day trial version. After downloading the demo to a temporary directory, you will find a file named setupkit.exe on your hard drive. Locate this file in the File Manager or Explorer and double-click to start the installation. The install program will then copy files to the c:\kanjikit directory and create icons to start the program. Once you input your User ID, you are ready to use Japanese in your English applications.

Switching between English and Japanese:
Press Ctrl+Spacebar to activate KanjiKit for Japanese input. Japanese can be typed in the open toolbar and will be inserted into the application you are working with. To switch back to English input, press Ctrl+Spacebar once again. Remember, the cursor must be blinking in your application in order for the Japanese text to appear. Also, please select the Japanese font from the font bar of your application for best results.

--------------KanjiKit Toolbar

--------------Japanese Input Bar

Typing in Japanese:
After pressing Ctrl+Spacebar, you can type in Japanese using the Romaji Input Method. For example, type konnnichiha for ‚±‚ñ‚É‚¿‚Í. To convert to Kanji, press the Spacebar. If the Kanji that you are looking for isn't shown, press the Spacebar once again and further choices will appear. If you wish to convert from Hiragana to Katakana, instead of pressing the Spacebar, press F7. Press Enter to send the Japanese to your application.

Japanese Input Bar after "konnichiha" input

Switching between Shift-JIS and JIS input:
When using KanjiKit to enter Japanese text into your English applications, we recommend using Shift-JIS. When sending Email over the Internet, JIS is recommended. To switch between Shift-JIS and JIS, click on the Eng button found on the KanjiKit tool bar. This will open the IME Configuration box. Under the Options tab, you can choose between Shift-JIS and JIS. Then click Close for the change to take effect. KanjiKit is set to S-JIS as the default after downloading. Extra spaces before and after input is a characteristic of JIS input, but Shift-JIS will not have those spaces.

EUC input mode:
There is also another input method available called EUC. This input mode is based on the Japanese Unix character set. EUC input mode is useful with some applications that are not able to display the Japanese characters when using S-JIS or JIS mode. Just click on the S-JIS button, change to EUC and press CTRL+Spacebar to input in EUC Mode. It will look the same on the screen as S-JIS, but the internal code that is used to display the text will be different.

Viewing Japanese web pages:
Simply have KanjiKit activated. Some pages were constructed using Japanese Unix (EUC) code. To view these pages, click on the S-JIS button on the KanjiKit toolbar, then choose EUC.

Closing KanjiKit:
Click on the large X found on the KanjiKit tool bar.

Differences between Demo and Full version:
This demo version is different from the full version in two ways. 1. The full version will contain detailed instructions in English and Japanese for using KanjiKit. 2. The full version will contain two Japanese TrueType fonts (Mincho and Gothic) instead of the jagged bitmap font in the demo.