Please take your shoes off before entering.

[dr4b]

靴を脱いで上がって下さい。

Hmm, I wonder if that will come out normal on any machines not running Windows. I'm too lazy to boot up my Mac and check, though... I'm playing with the Windows IME again. It does such strange stuff to Japanese text, however.

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[techstep.livejournal.com]

i can see this in mozilla on both windows and linux, as well as konqueror and galeon on linux. doesn't show up in netscape 4.7 (which i still use, because it's faster on some systems i use than mozilla), and i'll be damned if i can get it to appear in lynx.

[dr4b]

But is it actually intelligible Japanese on those platforms?

[techstep.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know. It looks the same on the platforms I mentioned, so I'm going to assume that it is intelligible, but just outside my realm of knowledge.

[mrpeck.livejournal.com]

It looks like Japanese on my Mac.

[madmadammim.livejournal.com]

all I see are little boxes

not that japanese would be any more intelligeble to me.

[dr4b]

Yup, I saw your screenshot, and it does look right.

Much as I hate the idea, I wish people would just decide on somebody's Japanese encoding and use that everywhere so there wouldn't be like four "standards" floating around.

(And in case you wondered, it does say "Please take off your shoes before entering." If Carl is about to say that there is no "before" in the sentence, then he can talk to my Canon Wordtank dictionary which has that sentence as an example sentence when you look up the word for "shoe".)

[cellio]

Your Japanese always comes out as lines of question marks for me. (Win2kp at work, Win98 at home, Netscape 4.7.)

Just checked IE (5.0), and that gives me little boxes instead of question marks. (It also makes the user names on my friends page really honking huge compared to all the other text on the page. Weird. Probably an LJ problem of some sort, but since I don't use IE and I don't think other people use my friends page, I'm not going to worry about it.)

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

That's nice. There still is no 'before' in the sentence. :P

I would translate it as "Please take off your shoes and come in" with the translation you give being the implication rather than the literal, needing more context than given to cause it to be the absolutely correct one.

[meerkat299.livejournal.com]

IE will display it correctly if you have downloaded the Japanese Language Display module
from micro$oft's website. Some installations of IE have it by default, but most do not.
Using IE 6.0 with Japanese Langauage Support I can read the above just fine (though I don't know enough Japanese to really tell).