This is in accompaniment to Jeffery's Dictionary: http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dict
This isn't important for learning Japanese, but it does come in handy, if you want the writing to come out even and nice, for saaayyy.. a title page, or something like that and you don't have a japanese-enabled browser or an alternative to using that font. Basically, I'm going to try to show you how to string a series of kana and kanji together using his dictionary. If you don't get it, look for the pattern.
If you don't get it, it's not important, skip over it, if you do, and get the idea, good for you! Maybe it will be easier for you to make titles, etc
Breaking this down: http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/S=48/fg=b/jap/%a4%b5%a4%a2?TR
http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/
This isn't important for determining anything about the appearance, however, if you add a "dict" to the end, you get the dictionary, if you add "kanji", you get the kanji dictionary.
S=48/
determines the size, you have a choice of 16, 18, 26 and 48, by default, it's usually 26
fg=b/
This is font color, you can have the following:
White=w
Black=b
Red=r
Green=g
Blue=bl
Yellow=y
Aqua=c
Magenta=m
In IE it's White by default, but this can be annoying for the Kanji dictionary, so I tend to use Netscape, since red is the default.
jap/%a4%b5%a4%a2?TR
It's the %letter-number/letter%letter-number/letter that determines the kanji or kana that's supposed to appear as a gif. All characters consist of 2 of these combonations. For example: %a4%b5 = 1 character.
If you string a bunch of them together, you can spell out a word, a name, a place, etc that may not be in his dictionary, but you want to put together.
For example: plugging in: %a4%d2%a4%c4%a4%b8 into
http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/S=26/fg=b/jap/[plug-inhere]?TR
This looking like:
http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/S=26/fg=b/jap/%a4%d2%a4%c4%a4%b8?TR
will get you the hiragana spelling of Hitsuji. ^_^ If you wanted Kinno, plugged in, you would copy the code with the percents, and plug it in the appropiate spot. (which would be before) Then you would have the name Kinno Hitsuji.
Stringining a bunch of Kana and Kanji will get you a sentence.
Anything with %a4%a0[whatever] will render the [whatever] into your browser. So, "%a4%a0(" will get you "(".
There are other ways to get it, but that's the easiest to remember. for other syntax, There is a list after the kana chart.
the values for each are the same for hexidecimal (0-9,a-f)
Hiragana
All Hiragana starts out in the searchstring as: "%a4"
Add this before the rest of it.
Katakana
All Katakana starts in the search string as: "%a5"
Add this before the rest of it.
R= Romaji
H= Hiragana
K= Katakana
J= Jeffrey's Code
