I know I'll probably be lucky to find a straight answer here,:erm: but does anyone know how to write Squall in Japanese?


... Psh. I knew no-one would know, but I figured out an easy way to find out.

wots this easy way to find out then? cus ive wanted to no that question my self

yeah i'd like to know that myself:)

uh lets see....

We would have to romanjize his name... so... Squall would be Su koo ru

and if you have Japanese encoding on your browser, this is his name in Japanese writing.

スコール - Squall
リオンハート - Leonhart (or in Kanji - 同盟)

To pronounce it, it's...

Su koo ru - ri on haa to

If you can't see that, check attachment

uh lets see....

We would have to romanjize his name... so... Squall would be Su koo ru

and if you have Japanese encoding on your browser, this is his name in Japanese writing.

スコール - Squall
リオンハート - Leonhart (or in Kanji - 同盟)

To pronounce it, it's...

Su koo ru - ri on haa to

If you can't see that, check attachment


Well... You could do that. And in fact it's actually 100% correct, at least the Squall part anyway, I'm not sure about the Leonhart part yet. Anyway, my easy way was to just look at a screenshot of a battle sequence from the Japan version. Then Squall's name would be in the bottom-right hand corner.

Oh and by the way MogKnight, do you know Japanese? If so how did you learn it?

no idea

Hanh takes Japanese class, iirc.

I'm kind of disappointed he replied before I did, because I had such a nice submission.

I wanted to take Japanese in high school. The program I was in offered Japanese in certain high schools, but mine wasn't one of them.

P.S.: This is a really cool thread and I appreciate the info.

but how do you write Rinoa in japanese:eye:

Ooh, are we taking requests? If we are, I'd like to see Selphie's name in Japanese.

actually, someone could translate every FF8 name into japanese:eye: that would be interesting. at least i'd like to know.

Get a japanese writing booklet

oh, well. i could do that.

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/games/ps/ff8/char.html
If you scroll on down, it has each character's name written in Roman characters and Japanese ones.

A question, if I may.
If you want to encode certain text in It\nternet Explorer 6, do you select the text and go to View-Encoding-Japanese? When I did that it only changed to a different font, it was still in English.

You have to download it.