(keitai-l) Re: Entering text on japanese phones?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Renfield Kuroda" <Renfield.Kuroda@msdw.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Entering text on japanese phones?


> Sauli Hirvi wrote:
>
> > Well katakana and of course romanji shouldn't be too hard to input
> > on phones. I don't live in japan, but I'd imagine that you wouldn't use
> > kanji to write sms/chatting, am I right?
> >
>
> Nope. Kanji is also quite liberally used -- mostly because it saves cost:
a
> single kanji character is cheaper than expressing the equivalent info in
> multiple hiragana/katana characters.
>
> And users definitely are thinking about cost-savings; there's a bunch of
> shortened Japanese phrases and words that are becoming more popular b/c
they're
> cheaper and easier to send in a text message.
>

Interesting and quite understandable.
How does the system actually work on phones?
How do you input kanji? Do you type multiple
chars to form one or is there a menu system
of some sort?

-sauli