Do you use Windows? You probably need to install Japanese language support, rather than find a translation website.
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My computer is fully capable of Japanese text (although Win98's display bugs up every once in awhile
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), and what you entered looks like those command squares to me, too.
At one point I downloaded a service pack of some sort that pretty much solved all my incompatibility problems, but I forget exactly what it was. Go to Microsoft's site and look around for a bit. It's there somewhere.
If you still need a
translation site, well, I'm a 4th year Japanese student (albeit inactive), and I use
Jim Breen's online J/E dictionary. It doesn't translate it in a neat format for those with no Japanese language experience, but it's fairly accurate, and it's great for breaking down sentences to their different parts and for looking up single words.
Don't expect much in the way of modern slang or lingo, though... It's several decades' primitive when it comes to imported words and vernacular katakana.
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(words with no real origin; quite often onomatopoeia).
...Yes, I had to look up the spelling of "onomatopoeia." >_<