Author Topic: Does anyone know Japanese? (Read 7601 times)

alank2 · « **on:** July 12, 2017, 06:32:39 pm »

Hi,

I'm trying to contact a guy in Japan through a webform and I don't know what to put in!!!

PA0PBZ · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2017, 06:41:37 pm »

It looks like a standard captcha, so I guess you have to type in the text with the blueish background. So even if you could read it you are a bit out of luck...

alank2 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2017, 06:45:25 pm »

I translated the bottom part:

Please enter the letters written in the picture with numbers.
Example) "Ichi ni san" ? "1234"
? Please input in half size numerals.

Even I remember Ichi=1, ni=2, san=3, but that isn't helping me much!

I don't know what a half size numeral is either...

PA0PBZ · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:06:33 pm »

I'm sure someone will respond with the correct translation, but then if you go back to the site the captcha will be different

alank2 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:11:54 pm »

It seems to be staying for now, but you are probably right it will say "expired" when I try to submit it later...

PA0PBZ · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:16:59 pm »

I see a 6 in your picture, but the others

alank2 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:19:50 pm »

I appreciate that you like a good challenge!!! Thanks!!!!

cdev · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:20:31 pm »

I had a situation like this once that I solved using a screencap and OCR under linux. I forget what program I used but there are a bunch of OCR programs that work in CJK languages, screencap, import into OCR, then Google translate?

PA0PBZ · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:21:59 pm »

Oh and by the way, half size numerals = half width numerals or better: the way we use them, so just 1234 should do.

alank2 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:24:39 pm »

I tried a couple of image translation sites; no luck.

Quote from: PA0PBZ on July 12, 2017, 07:21:59 pm

Oh and by the way, half size numerals = half width numerals or better: the way we use them, so just 1234 should do.

I'm not following - what is a half width numeral?

Andy Watson · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:26:43 pm »

Nightmare - Roman text captchas are bad enough.
I would guess that half size numerals mean lowercase - this is usual for captchas (I found that out the hard way!).
Assuming that they must be individual characters that can be typed on a keyboard - does this help:
https://www.branah.com/japanese

PA0PBZ · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:36:47 pm »

Quote from: alank2 on July 12, 2017, 07:24:39 pm

I'm not following - what is a half width numeral?

That is what we type if I understand it correctly, so use 1234 or 4731 or whatever the original captcha shows.

helius · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:38:03 pm »

half-size are normal ASCII numerals. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-width_kana
it looks like you only need the numerals from 0 to 9 (larger values are different).

PA0PBZ: the image you posted are the kana for pronouncing the numbers. They would not be written that way.

PA0PBZ · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:42:50 pm »

Quote from: helius on July 12, 2017, 07:38:03 pm

PA0PBZ: the image you posted are the kana for pronouncing the numbers. They would not be written that way.

Maybe not, but they look similar to what is in the captcha

If you look at the example they give for 1 2 3 4 I can find these in the image I posted.

Nusa · « **Reply #14 on:** July 12, 2017, 07:50:11 pm »

Quote from: PA0PBZ on July 12, 2017, 07:42:50 pm

Quote from: helius on July 12, 2017, 07:38:03 pm
PA0PBZ: the image you posted are the kana for pronouncing the numbers. They would not be written that way.

Maybe not, but they look similar to what is in the captcha

Correct, the captcha seems to be using phonetic spelling, at least in part. I don't know the first bit, but I clearly see "roku" and "zero" (6 and 0).
It's been over 40 years since I was in Japan, and I had only a basic knowledge of the language even then.

PartialDischarge · « **Reply #15 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:04:27 pm »

It seems they are using both katakana and hiragana, studied them loooong ago

ichi roku roku zero

1 6 6 0

Ton · « **Reply #16 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:09:36 pm »

You almost got it right PA0PBZ ans MAster tech got it in one

You wrote it like japanese normaly write it using Hiragana, but some of the capcha is Katakana, to make it less machine readabel

see atatched table

alank2 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:11:39 pm »

It gave an error, probably expired.

new one:

PartialDischarge · « **Reply #18 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:13:41 pm »

8993

Use this table together with the other one above

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Table_katakana.svg

CaptainNomihodai · « **Reply #19 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:14:48 pm »

~~8660~~
Edit: didn't see the new one, 8993 is right

alank2 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:20:54 pm »

I tried 8660...

Another new one:

thanks everyone!!

CaptainNomihodai · « **Reply #21 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:23:59 pm »

alank2 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:27:24 pm »

I appreciate the help, it came up with an error which translates to:

? not post of alphanumeric characters only is accepted.

I should be clicking the LEFT button, right?

Another:

Ton · « **Reply #23 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:34:26 pm »

8111

left button send right button cancel

alank2 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 12, 2017, 08:35:41 pm »

It responds with:

translate:? not post of alphanumeric characters only is accepted.


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