#japanese posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/japanese/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #japanese. Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:02:35 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ And some more parallel language editions of the Book of Mormon: Amharic–English Armenian–English Sim... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2023/1493/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2023/1493/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT And some more parallel language editions of the Book of Mormon:

  • Amharic–English
  • Armenian–English
  • Simplified Chinese–English
  • Hindi–English
  • Japanese–English
  • Khmer–English
  • Latvian–English
  • Lingala–English
  • Lithuanian–English
  • Malagasy–English
  • Maori–English
  • Mongolian–English
  • Myanmar–English
  • Persian–English
  • Samoan–English
  • Slovak–English
  • Slovenian–English
  • Tahitian–English
  • Tamil–English
  • Telugu–English
  • Tongan–English
  • Turkish–English

Amharic–English side-by-side edition

Simplified Chinese–English side-by-side edition

Hindi–English side-by-side edition

Persian–English side-by-side edition

Tamil–English side-by-side edition

I think my favorite is the Persian.

Also, I made a traditional Chinese version as well, but Firefox hangs when I try to print it. It’s the only language that happened with. Haven’t been able to figure it out yet.

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]]> A spectre is haunting Unicode: In 1978 Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established t... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2018/596/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2018/596/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:00:00 GMT A spectre is haunting Unicode:

In 1978 Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange — several of the added characters had no obvious sources, and nobody could tell what they meant or how they should be pronounced. Nobody was sure where they came from. These are what came to be known as the ghost characters (幽霊文字).

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