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dioman13
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Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 09:11 AM UTC
Could any of our co-modelers from Japan help me here. I need to make a small sign written in Japanese (Japanese charicters) in the proper wording. I have tryed to google it up but can't get it right. Not even sure if it can be done on an Engkish key board. The writing I need should say, north west bunker 27. Thanks to anyone in advance for any help with this. Bob Davis
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Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 12:08 PM UTC
Have you tried here?

http://www.network54.com/Forum/449919

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english_japanese/

北西バンカー27

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Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 12:09 PM UTC

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Could any of our co-modelers from Japan help me here. I need to make a small sign written in Japanese (Japanese charicters) in the proper wording. I have tryed to google it up but can't get it right. Not even sure if it can be done on an Engkish key board. The writing I need should say, north west bunker 27. Thanks to anyone in advance for any help with this. Bob Davis


Does this work?

北西バンカー27

I used google translator
https://translate.google.com
dioman13
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Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 07:11 PM UTC
Mike, Steve, all I get are empty squares. I think the problem is in trying to get it translated with Japanese writing charecters also. I get a translation but with English script charecters. Thanks for trying. bob
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Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 07:53 PM UTC
Bob,
I'm not sure why google translator doesn't work for you: it gave me the Japanese characters. So all you need do now is cut and paste the characters above.

MissAnna
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Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 08:05 PM UTC
Bob, I know in my browser I installed Japanese, Cyrillic, and -of course - Klingon, and I can see the characters in the native script. Check options on your browser and see if it lets you set Japanese as a secondary.
dioman13
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Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2015 - 04:17 AM UTC
Thanks for the help everyone. I'll have to get my friend over to check out what's what. When it comes to computers, I am a self proclaimed idiot.
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Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2015 - 04:33 AM UTC
As others above said, you need the Japanese carachter set, and how it is installed depends on your operating system/browser.

As for the translation, I would be *very* careful with automatic translations. They are good to give you an idea of the text but using it is a different thing. Just try to translate from Japanese to English any website and see how it looks...
dioman13
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Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2015 - 06:57 AM UTC
Thanks for the reminder Carlos, would not want to insult anyone even by accident.
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