Re: Kanji for foreigner names: was Re: NG for gaijin topics. (English)

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From: Dave McLane
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 09:57

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santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &) writes (about seals):

>I have one with $@%5%s%H%9(J. Really ugly.

>A friend of my lab tried to make the kanjis for Rafael Santos. Lots of 
>trouble with Rafael. Santos was rendered (sp?) in $@;3D;@4(J. Seems that is
>a "Mountain in Tosu", where Tosu is a name of a place.
>Rafael was very strange. Better forget about it.

Sorry, I'm no help at all. Mine was made for me. But I've heard
that some places will only take non_Japanese names in katakana anyway....

Dave

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Subject: Re: Kanji for foreigner names: was Re: NG for gaijin topics. (English)
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