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This page contains various notes on using Japanese in HTML.

Displaying Japanese on web pages

To make HTML display Japanese correctly, mark the language. For short text segments this can be done with :日本語. For longer texts, the information needs to be set in the header.

Furigana

Furigana codes

Furigana codes look like this: :房内(ぼうち) On your browser, this displays as :房内(ぼうち)

Browser compatibility

Microsoft's Internet Explorer displays furigana correctly, but Firefox doesn't. There is a plug in to make it work for Firefox.

Links

  • Ruby markup from the W3 consortium
  • Ruby support for Firefox

    • Tategaki

    No major browser currently supports tategaki so it is necessary to use tables in order to display it. Standards for tategaki are under development.