...but I didn't stop downloading, I just stopped using BitTorrent unless absolutely necessary. Luckily, I've found a great, more secure, faster alternative.
There are several different ways, actually. To understand how it works, you need to know a bit about Japanese orthography. Japanese is traditionally written with a combination of borrowed chinese characters, (called kanji) and two syllabic character sets called hiragana and katakana. However, it is possible to write Japanese without any kanji at all. (Although without the kanji it can actually be *harder* to read.) So keyboards in Japan, as far as I know, have keys for the syllabic sets, which only have about 50 or so different characters. Japanese computer programs take the syllabic characters and from them can detect where kanji characters should be. For example, if I typed "watashi" in hiragana, three characters would be displayed on the screen (WA - TA - SHI.) If I press the Space key, I will get a list of kanji that match those characters, and I pick the appropriate one.
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...but I didn't stop downloading, I just stopped using BitTorrent unless absolutely necessary. Luckily, I've found a great, more secure, faster alternative.
There are several different ways, actually. To understand how it works, you need to know a bit about Japanese orthography. Japanese is traditionally written with a combination of borrowed chinese characters, (called kanji) and two syllabic character sets called hiragana and katakana. However, it is possible to write Japanese without any kanji at all. (Although without the kanji it can actually be *harder* to read.) So keyboards in Japan, as far as I know, have keys for the syllabic sets, which only have about 50 or so different characters. Japanese computer programs take the syllabic characters and from them can detect where kanji characters should be. For example, if I typed "watashi" in hiragana, three characters would be displayed on the screen (WA - TA - SHI.) If I press the Space key, I will get a list of kanji that match those characters, and I pick the appropriate one.
Java sucks. C# is better. I don't like using either, though; I prefer C.