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Thanks for letting me know. I can't really speak Japanese so it's good to have your feedback. Is Kanji necessary? I only left it out because with all Japanese characters encoded in Joomulus, the file size was around 7MB. Which can't be used on a webpage. With just Kana the file size was 75kb, which is still almost double English, Greek, and Russian Joomulus files.

I think a large part of the file size is the font I used. Do you know of any open source .ttf fonts for Japanese? We might be able to get a smaller file with a more efficient font. I only ask for an open source font because there are legal issues with embedding fonts for redistribution. And I find it really really hard to search for any because I can't read Japanese :)

Thank you for your continious development for the Japanese implementation of the module. So far there are no Japanese compatible tag cloud for Joomla and I hope to help to create the 1st.

Anyway, yes, in Japanese, we use Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji unlike Chinese and Koreans. In addition, we also use alphanumeric characters.

I will try to look for an open source .ttf font which is not too big.

so the kanji characters won't still show up right? uhmmm.. thank you for the information.. i'm also trying kanji characters.. hehe

^^,

sushismb wrote:
Hello,

OK I unistalled the module from the backend and re-installed it. It was successful without any errors.

Please take note that in Japanese, we use a combination of 3 different charactersets = HIRAGANA / KATAKANA / KANJI.

Aside from that, when typing on a computer or any similar device, we have an option to use 1 and 2 byte KATAKANA as well as to 1 and 2 byte Alphabet characters.

So meaning, without covering all the above, we can't say that the module is 100% compatible with the Japanese language.

My conclusion after this test...

Hiragana = YES
1 and 2 byte Katakana = YES
Kanji = NO
1 and 2 byte Alphabets = NO (this means any alphabets will not show when the language is set to JP)
good job. thanks you