Using foreign (specifically Japanese hiragana) characters in an OpenOffice document

[Shoseki]

Hi,

I am studying a Japanese language course, and have been set and official assignment, which I will link here :

www.flashygraphics.co.uk/content/CraigMooreAssignment1.odt

I have pretty much done most of the work, however what I want to do is start to enter the characters, for example :

Instead of the word "Watashi" I want to be able to enter the characters for Wa, ta, shi themselves.

I *don't* have a japanese keyboard, so how do I do it? I know which characters I want (only Hiragana) so how do I input those characters into the document?

I am guessing some type of unicode hash or something :S Can anyone help?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

What OS are you using since you posted in LOSX&OS?

 

[Shoseki]

Um, well its WinXP, but I am running openoffice... I didn't think it was an operating system question :S

 

[Sharknose]

I'll stick my reply in over in the OS forum since you are using WinXP. The mechanism for written is pretty much the same in Windows and MacOS (but OS X is WAY WAY better in general when it comes to being multilingual... one reason why I got one, since the wife uses the Mac in full Japanese language settings).