How to search Kanji?

[Bruce Pennington]

Brian,

I have tried a few times, to find a name using kanji in the Search function with no success.  I'm pasting the name, like "義包" in the search window and I get "0 Results".  Am I doing something wrong?

[Ray Singer]

Not to speak for Brian, but it's possible that you see no results because there are no results to get. 

 

https://www.google.com/search?q="義包"+site%3Anihontomessageboard.com&client=ms-android-google&sca_esv=f7a9fdc91166be13&sxsrf=ADLYWIKcpmCcgNkXmk1rhMYsth5CNX_trw%3A1716556132379&ei=ZJFQZsXfFr6ykvQPlPWy-AM&oq="義包"+site%3Anihontomessageboard.com&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIiUi576p5YyFIiBzaXRlOm5paG9udG9tZXNzYWdlYm9hcmQuY29tSIs8UP8KWIg8cAN4AJABAJgB_QGgAd0FqgEFMC4zLjG4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgKgAsYBwgIHECMYJxiuAsICBRAhGKABmAMAiAYBkgcDMS4xoAfCBQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

[Bruce Pennington]

That would be true if that were the case, however I copied this kanji straight off this NMB post:

 

The other times it was the same case.  Kanji search got 0 results, but using the english name I get lots of results, and lo and behold, the Japanese translation with kanji is right there in the thread.

[Ray Singer]

Bruce, the error was mine. See below 

 

https://www.google.com/search?q="義包"+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.militaria.co.za&client=ms-android-google&sca_esv=f7a9fdc91166be13&sxsrf=ADLYWIL1_nT5KPuTzVEDBGmWcczQaQBq5A%3A1716556804678&ei=BJRQZr-FKfn9wbkPxu28gAQ&oq="義包"+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.militaria.co.za&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIiki576p5YyFIiBzaXRlOmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1pbGl0YXJpYS5jby56YUjIJlDJDFigHXAAeACQAQCYAZoBoAH_AqoBAzEuMrgBA8gBAPgBAfgBApgCAaACkwHCAgQQIxgnwgIFECEYoAGYAwCIBgGSBwMwLjGgB_UE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

[Brian]

I think the software is only able to search the language you use as your default language to browse the board.
Don't think it's easy to have it search for Japanese kanji unless you use Google search as Ray did.
I'll investigate this a bit more. It's possible to add language packs so that people can have the entire forum in their own language, but that creates some other difficulties and may lead to people posting in other languages.

[Bruce Pennington]

OK, I thought maybe the error was some thing I did. No worries, Brian, don’t want you to go to a bunch of trouble and expense. You have your hands pretty full already.