Write Japanese in InDesign

[sbVB_Sergio_B._Villas-Boas@adobeforums.com]

I'm using InDesign 2.0 and Windows XP (with japanese language installed).

If I use MS Word (version 2000) or open office,
I can easily write japanese (as well as many other languages with
non western characters). I switch to Japanese keyboard, and type.
But if I do that with InDesign, strange western characters are placed
where japanese characters should be.

I tried to switch the Windows environment to japanese, but it didn't work.
I tried to switch the internationalization of InDesign to Japanese, and
I got all menus in Japanese, but still couldn't write japanese in the
documents.

If someone knows how to solve this, please email me.
I'm sbVB (Sergio Barbosa Villas-Boas)
[email]sbvb@sbvb.com.br[/email]

[Harron_K._Appleman@adobeforums.com]

sbVB,

Use Windows IME to compose Japanese text in MS Word. Copy then paste into InDesign text container. If necessary, select pasted text and change to appropriate Unicode font -- e.g., Arial Unicode MS, MS Gothic, MS Mincho. Kozuka Mincho and Gothic OT fonts included with ID2 also work for me.

=-= Harron =-=

[Jim_Heisig@adobeforums.com]

Did you figure out how to get Japanese text to work vertically (not just horizontally, as in Western languages), or does one have to have a Japanese operating system for that?

[Richard_A._Ross@adobeforums.com]

You can tile a bunch of one character wide text frames together to get your vertical text effect.

I know...this is... oh forget it.