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Chrome is known to have issues.\n\n(4) Click the \"Edit\" button, paste in some Japanese text, and click \"Edit\" again to save. If you don't have any Japanese text handy, try this short dialogue:\n\n\u003e 「おはよう、稲叢さん。いつもご飯、ありがとう」\n\u003e \n\u003e 「いいえいえ、気にしないで下さい。料理は好きですから」\n\u003e \n\u003e 「そうか。そう言ってもらえると……」\n\u003e \n\u003e 「稲叢さんの料理は、自分で作るよりも美味しいから、凄く助かってる。ありがとう」\n\n(5) Hover over words and characters to look them up. Click a word to highlight it permanently and surround it with spaces, making it easier to see later.\n\n## License\n\nCopyright (c) 2015 David Foster\n\n\u003ca rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis work is licensed under a \u003ca rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/\"\u003eCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License\u003c/a\u003e.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdavidfstr%2Fuhuru","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdavidfstr%2Fuhuru","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdavidfstr%2Fuhuru/lists"}