Template talk:Nihongo2

"helps web browsers display it correctly" Which browsers have problems displaying kanji and are helped by this template? --Apoc2400 (talk) 21:39, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * If you view a web page in English which contains a kanji character, the browser needs to pick an appropriate font. This template suggests to the browser that it should select a Japanese font for the character. Without the template, the browser won't know this and might select a different font (my browser selects a Chinese font), making the text look wrong. For example, compare 神 (Japanese) with 神 (Hong Kong Chinese). For me, the character looks quite different depending on the language of the font. This is also a bit annoying when editing Wikipedia pages since the 神 character is displayed as its kyūjitai form in the edit box. (Stefan2 (talk) 20:53, 16 October 2011 (UTC))

Including a link to Help:Japanese
Shouldn't this template also include a link to Help:Japanese like the nihongo template does? (The question mark next to the あ) (あ) AngelFire3423 (talk) 19:03, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm going to add it. AngelFire3423 (talk) 02:58, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Why should it do so?

Here's a reason why it should not. The template is rarely if ever used other than after an example of the Nihongo template. Conveniently and appropriately, this has a link to Help:Japanese. An article needs one link to Help:Japanese; even the most timid of monoglot English readers surely doesn't need a little question mark leading to an explanation of Japanese script every time that Japanese script is used.

Numerous articles benefit from plentiful use of Japanese script. Shigeichi Nagano is just one example. This gratuitous complication to Nihongo2 has led to a grotesque result. -- Hoary (talk) 01:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I have always been opposed to the whole concept of the useless ?. To an uninformed reader, it looks like the editors of an article are unsure about something. In any case, I long ago removed the nonsense by adding .t_nihongo_help { display: none; } to my personal monobook.css. On the other hand, there are technical merits to adding the proper language tags to Japanese text spans. Bendono (talk) 02:29, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Let's discuss the matter here at WP:MOS-JA. -- Hoary (talk) 05:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Updates needed
There are two things I've noticed lacking in this template compared to the other nihongo family members:


 * The help tooltip has been removed from the others. This one should follow suit.
 * There are no errors emitted if there are extra parameters. Working through Category:Nihongo template errors, there were hundreds of cases of people using the wrong nihongo template or one with the parameter order of the others. We need to catch these cases because this template will just throw those extra parameters away.

Opencooper (talk) 03:32, 16 February 2020 (UTC)