I've been trying to open txt documents of Japanese but it keeps showing up as jibberish? I have the japanese keyboard enabled but is there something needed to display japanese text in a txt document? and how does one install the smoopy setup of the vertical view, typical of japanese novels. izh file? I'd appreciate any help.

This might be relevant:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windo...tem-locale

I recommend against changing system locale to run smoopy. I just did this: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/26...ows-vista/

Hmm, perhaps this didn't address your question. (Doesn't smoopy display it as vertical by default? Otherwise just click the display options from the dropdown menu(s).)

For other programs, MS Word should let you select the proper encoding of the .txt files (UTF-8, Shift_JIS, etc.) and other text editors and browsers will do the same...

@astendra that was completely relevant. thanks so much! Fixed my problem! :C)

@nest0r Smoopy has a strange install file so its a little confusing but I really wanted to be able to use Rikaichan on text documents so I'm probably better off without it anyway. and just reading on Firefox somehow.

thanks for the fast reply guys. greatly appreciate it. Now I just gotta find a good site to read txt books on.

Tolerence91 Wrote:@astendra that was completely relevant. thanks so much! Fixed my problem! :C)

@nest0r Smoopy has a strange install file so its a little confusing but I really wanted to be able to use Rikaichan on text documents so I'm probably better off without it anyway. and just reading on Firefox somehow.

thanks for the fast reply guys. greatly appreciate it. Now I just gotta find a good site to read txt books on.

You shouldn't have to change your system locale to get Japanese texts to display properly, or did you mean that running Japanese programs were showing gibberish? (i.e. menus and stuff). That's why I thought you should just use AppLocale, if it's just for running one program (smoopy), since changing system locale causes problems for some people (like me ;p) but anyway, doesn't matter now. ;p

You don't have to use Rikaichan if you want pop-up definitions. You can use Lingoes or Stardict if you want pop-ups when reading texts outside the browser.

The only thing I use smoopy for is the vertical text and because it converts bracketed readings to rubi/furigana, as I no longer have MS Word (and don't feel like buying it or otherwise procuring it when I have OpenOffice Writer) and OpenOffice doesn't support the rubier macro that balloonguy wrote. It's inconvenient that smoopy doesn't let you select text, though. I could never get other readers to work, so it's a tradeoff.

Also, your question was really difficult to understand. You were asking about the lzh file, as in how to open it? Just use winrar and the .exe and readme.txt is inside.