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25 questions linked to/from How should I format my questions on Japanese Language SE?
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Deciding on an “officially recommended” format for furigana on JLU [duplicate]
This question is closely tied to two previous questions:
What is the correct approach to romaji, kana, and/or kanji in example answers?
Is it possible to add support for Ruby tags or any other ...
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Do questions have to be in English?
Does a question (and by extension its answers) have to be posed in English, or are purely Japanese conversations acceptable? What about other languages?
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What questions are not allowed on Japanese Language SE?
Most of the questions that we have downvoted and closed as off-topic on the Japanese Language Stack Exchange site have violated one (or more) of the following guidelines.
No Questions that violate ...
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Should we have a standard notation for example sentences?
Many texts and internet resources use certain symbols to prefix correct, sometimes correct, questionable, and incorrect examples:
○ (U+25CB): correct (converts with まる in Windows IME)
△ (U+25B3): ...
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What notation should we use for showing the pitch accent of words?
Japanese, as I imagine most (if not all) of you are aware, has a pitch accent system, which essentially means that the pitch pattern of a word can be and is often a very important factor in ...
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What is the correct approach to romaji, kana, and/or kanji in example answers?
I like to offer example sentences when I answer a question. However, I can't assume that every reader will know every word I want to use.
How should I indicate kanji readings?
For example, see my ...
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Why doesn't furigana work in italicized or bolded text?
Why can I type 漢字{かんじ}, but not 漢字{かんじ} or 漢字{かんじ}? Is this by design? Do I really need to use inline code formatting for kanji with furigana in italicized or bolded text?
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Markdown parser doesn't understand URLs with Japanese
I tried to construct a link like this: [goo](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/9174/m0u/いい/) and it caused the Markdown parser to produce goo, which (if you're reading this in the future) is not ...
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Furigana engine: modified version with various bugfixes, added features
I've uploaded a modified version of the Furigana engine to https://gist.github.com/cyphr/6536814. The changes include various bugs fixed and added features.
Fixed bugs:
I've added the problem ...
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What can we do to make new users more aware of what type of questions to (not) ask?
tl;dr - Is there a way to more easily direct users' attention to the How do I ask a good question? page?
I feel like recently there's been a huge influx of crappy questions; usually translation ...
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IPA and diacritic rendering
In revision #2 of an answer I wrote, there's a diacritic under [c].
On my computer, it looks like this:
But for Darius, it looks like this:
The diacritic is way to the left of where it's supposed to ...
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Would the furigana extension here also be suitable for adding pinyin on Chinese Language & Usage?
Over on Chinese Language & Usage I started a meta topic yesterday on whether we might consider using the furigana extension from Japanese Language & Usage to add pinyin above characters just ...
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Updating the FAQ
According to Updating the FAQ for a StackExchange site it is now possible for moderators to edit the FAQ, but I do not know if this is also the case for beta sites.
If yes, could we at least put a ...
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Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
Other sites have formatting sandboxes, so I figured, why not here? After all, we've got lots of our own special markup.
If you need to try out any of the markup or formatting options on Japanese.SE ...
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直 and 喝: Han unification, and being able to write Japanese on JSE
It has already been discussed on the general site meta at Whitelist the <span> tag with the lang= attribute, in order to support Han characters, but I'd like to draw attention to it again here ...