JWPce - Japanese Word Processor


1.What is JWPce and what can it do for me?
JWPce is a freeware Japanese word processor, available free to anyone under the terms of the GNU General Public License. You are welcome to make a copy of JWPce for your own use, as well as to distribute it to other people. The GNU General Public License binds you to the agreement that you always distribute full copies of the program, and that you may charge a distribution fee for distributing it. However, no part(s) of JWPce may be included in any commercial product, nor may any commercial product include portion(s) derived from part(s) of JWPce, without the explicit permission of the respective copyright holder(s).

JWPce is a basic Japanese word processor that is designed primarily for the English speaker who is reading and/or writing in Japanese. Considerable effort has been put into the online dictionary, kanji information, and radical lookup features of JWPce. These allow JWPce to function as an electronic Japanese-English, English-Japanese, and kanji dictionary. Additionally, JWPce has a number of features that were designed to assist students studying Japanese.

Although JWPce was inspired by the program JWP (created by Stephen Chung), JWPce is a complete rewrite of the code, starting from scratch. During the creation of JWPce, I added a number of features designed to assist me in learning Japanese. You may find these same features to be useful. Additionally, JWPce contains a number of features to make it easier to read native Japanese text (in electronic or print media).
1.2. Who Should/Should not Consider Using JWPce
To use JWPce effectively you must be able to read the phonetic Japanese alphabets (at least hiragana, and probably both hiragana and katakana). JWPce does not operate in romaji mode (romanized representation of Japanese). Aside from using romaji for input, and a few labels here and there that are in romaji, JWPce uses Japanese characters.

I certainly do not presume to tell people what they should and should not use JWPce for. However, given the limitations of the program, it is not suited to all applications. JWPce was designed to provide three basic sets of features, targeted primarily toward English speakers:

1.Basic Japanese word processing.
2.Online Japanese? English dictionary and kanji dictionary.
3.Aids for students learning Japanese.

I believe JWPce does a good job at providing these features.

JWPce

Well thank you for the link! It really helped me and it's certainly helping me learn kanji. Also it helps me to write out on the boards what I need to say in Japanese!

So well done for this!

Yes, thanks for the link too! That's I need to write japanesse.
Thanks!

Does anyone have any comparison between using this and using MS Worrd with the WIndows IME for japanese??

I definitley gotta check this one out, thanx :icon_applaud:

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