I need to set some Japanese words in an upcoming project. I have a few advantages here--I studied Japanese for a while, and I know the difference between hiragana, katakana, and kanji, and I will recognize the characters I need when I see them. I also appear to have some fonts on my machine that contain the appropriate glyphs. The question is: is there any way to find the glyphs I want other than just scrolling through an OpenType glyph palette?
Accessing occasional Japanese characters
I need to set some Japanese words in an upcoming project. I have a few advantages here--I studied Japanese for a while, and I know the difference between hiragana, katakana, and kanji, and I will recognize the characters I need when I see them. I also appear to have some fonts on my machine that contain the appropriate glyphs. The question is: is there any way to find the glyphs I want other than just scrolling through an OpenType glyph palette?
Re: Accessing occasional Japanese characters
Check the OpenType subsets for a possible category, including Stylistic Sets. If you don't find it there, you just might have to select it manually.
Good luck!
Ilene
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