Viewer tutorial

If you wish to read/translate Japanese web pages, use JWM along with Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer ie. use Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer to load pages from the internet and use JWM to read/translate the text. Do this by pointing Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer at the Japanese web site you wish to read, and then copy text from it into the JWM Text dialog.

In this way, you can read the Japanese text and also use the character and word lookup functions in JWM to translate the text. Figure 1 below shows some Japanese text which was copied from Netscape Navigator and pasted into JWM. Notice that in Netscape Navigator the Japanese text looks like gibberish, but JWM knows how to display it properly. You may wish to read further information about translating text.

Note: If you find that the Japanese text is not displayed properly when you paste it into JWM, you may not have Netscape Navigator set up properly. Make sure you have selected Japanese (Auto-Detect) as the Encoding/Character Set in the View menu - even though you may not have Japanese fonts installed, this appears to set up the Netscape Navigator clipboard format correctly.

Figure 1. Reading/translating a Japanese web page

The browser in JWM is currently an offline browser only. ie. it won't load up pages directly from the Internet. If you want to load a Japanese web page into JWM, you will need to use a normal web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer to go to the web site, then save the source code of the web page to your hard disk, and then open it with JWM for viewing.

If you want to use these materials as a basis for developing course materials for your students (subject to the usual copyright rules, of course), you will also need to save each picture you want included and convert it into PICT format using a graphics package. You may also need to modify the HTML source code somewhat to ensure that the page displays properly in the JWM browser (eg. change the picture names to .pct, etc).