I want to display Japanese on my web browser!

I want to display Japanese in the browser, but what should I do? What browser should I use?

NetSurf can display Japanese if you have fonts installed. I converted IPAex a while ago, but it should work with any Japanese fonts.

Sorry, I’m new to this RISC OS and I’m still confused, after downloading I don’t know how to install fonts.
please tell me.

1. First, click Menu (the middle mouse button) on the right-most icon bar icon, and choose Configure.
2. Click on Fonts.
3. Click on Install fonts.
4. When you downloaded/unzipped the fonts you would have ended up with a !Fonts directory. Drag and drop it onto the Font Merge window and click on Merge.

The fonts should then be available in NetSurf (and other apps).

Firstly, Chris’ tips above are excellent – thanks Chris!

For reference, I have experimented with non-Latin fonts in Iris. To do this, you’ll need to find suitable ttf/otf fonts and put them in Iris.Resources.UnixFont.Fonts (if memory serves) or Boot.Resources.UnixFont.Fonts

However, I’m not sure it was quite that simple – certainly I was able to accurately browse japanese videogame websites, but I cannot recall if I had to tell Iris anything more. I think I tried the “infamous” unifont typeface which is known to have a huge range of unicode glyphs, but looks rather, erm, crude. You can find files here https://unifoundry.com/unifont/

Mostly I was interested in seeing all the wikipedia side links appear with correct glyphs, and click them to see pages shown in chinese or japanese etc. I found that enabling this was practical, but had a significant impact on performance due to the size of these fonts, and the number of glyphs contained within. At the time I put this on hold because of that – on my test machine it added nearly 30 seconds to the load/render time of wikipedia. This was at least a year ago, though, maybe 18 months.

Hope this is of some help to anyone who stumbles across this thread :)