Japanese in mIRC by roxfan version 1.0

Part 1: reading Japanese (no extra programs required)
1. Go to Tools-Font or press Alt-V
2. Select any font that supports Japanese, e.g. MS Mincho/MS Gothic.
  Set script to "Japanese".
  Note: don't select fonts begining with @, or you'll have letters turned 90 degrees.
3. Go to  File-Options  (Alt-O), there IRC-Messages  and  turn  on  "Perform
JIS/SJIS Conversion"
4. That's all! Now you can read japanese text said by others.

Part 2: writing Japanese
Note: Default Windows 2000/XP Japanese IME is NOT working with mIRC, because it's
   Unicode  (16-bit),  and  mIRC  can  process  only  8-bit  input,  such   as
   JIS/Shift-JIS.

1. If you have a japanese text editor, e.g. JWPce or NJStar WP, you can type
text there and paste into mIRC. Just make sure that clipboard format is set to
Shift-JIS.
  JWPce: Utilities-Options (Ctrl-O), File/Clipboard tab, Clipboard Options-Export (choose Shift-JIS)
  NJStar WP: somewhere in Options :)
2. If you don't have any editor, or want to type the text  directly  in  mIRC,
you'll need  to  get  NJStar  Communicator.  There  is  30-days  demo  version
available on www.njstar.com, but  it  seems it doesn't expire :)
3. To input japanese text in mIRC right-click NJStar icon and  select  "NJStar
  Japanese input". On  appeared  toolbar  click  rightmost  button  ad  select
  "Japanese Shift-JIS". Now you can type in japanese! :)
NJStar tips:
 1. To switch between japanese/your default keyboard layot press Ctrl.

Send any comments/corrections/additions to roxfan@skynet.be

History:
 17-08-2002 Version 1.0