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Are you Japanese or visiting Japan who requires to read and write Japanese in your own Nokia S60? Don’t know whether your phone has already built in font installed? If not, the tips compiled by Erwan here can help you obtain the font in easy way. Not that superbly work, but still okay for daily usage.

Here is how to read Japanese font, using guidance from here:

• Downloading the Nokia SDK that contains the Japanese font
• Copy the font to your MicroSD, in the right folder with a name that mirrors your existing fonts (so you don’t have to override your fonts; you just add fonts that take priority)
• Reboot, and you’re done

And here is how to write in Japanese:

• Go to the +J page
• Download “+J for S60本体” (do NOT download the font)
• Follow the instructions to install +J from the PDF documentation (SKIP the “install the font” part)

Here is his conclusion about installing Japanese font for reading and writing in Nokia S60:

• My only grip (but it’s minor) is that switching from English input to Japanese input on a E71 is done with a three keys combination. Not very convenient.
• French accents still work. I mean for display, because my phone is a qwerty one, English OS, and I couldn’t input accents before anyway. Not sure what would happen on a French phone, maybe you lose the ability to input accents? Maybe you need to input in qwerty even if your keys are labeled azerty?
• By default, +J will be in 9-keys mode (for phones with just a phone pad). You need to switch that to romaji for the E71.
• By default, all applications will start in hiragana input mode (to input Japanese as opposed to English). Unless you live in Japan, you’ll want to change that too.

Hope it helps. Credit to Erwan for this

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