Captcha of PAIN

[risaxseph]

What are these symbols; we have been translating the captchas for like a full day (Yes I mean 24 hours; and by we I mean a group of my employees; only one of whom has any Japanese knowledge). Please help save us from the challenge question. This is from the Sega billing system.

[KEV1N]

Have you tried using this?

[Seraphus]

いねぬきき

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

Don't captcha expire?

[risaxseph]

http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/hiragana.htm

I have tried using the above and Microsofts IME. The person who works for me and knows japanese came up with this:

ぃねぬきき

However Sega's billing partner said:

エラー

画像認証と入力された文字が一致しません。
もう一度初めからやり直してください。

I have understood this to mean; error. The captcha is incorrect. Please try again.

[Darki]

You have an employee ho claims to have knowledge of japanese and can't read hiragana?

Interesting.

[ashley50]

Do it again and keep trying until you get past it using the tools that can be found on the internet.

[risaxseph]

You have an employee ho claims to have knowledge of japanese and can't read hiragana?

Interesting.

Well... he said he can speak it; not read it. Though seeing as I know nothing of the language I assume speaking it requires you need to know something of the languages mechanics. Also for clarification; he said its Hiragana but I have heard on this forum it is Katakana... Seeing as they are both different forms of the same language which is it?

[ashley50]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana

they are both used in the Japanese language.

The captcha was in hiragana.

[Ayrinne]

;x Kata/Hira I was using that. Before this week's patch the captcha was katakana, they switched to hiragana recently. I'm pretty sure if you took too long to enter the captcha it'll time out. You can always just refresh the page till you get an easier one to read.

[Darki]

Well... he said he can speak it; not read it. Though seeing as I know nothing of the language I assume speaking it requires you need to know something of the languages mechanics. Also for clarification; he said its Hiragana but I have heard on this forum it is Katakana... Seeing as they are both different forms of the same language which is it?

Well, I don't intend to say anything negative about your employee, don't take me wrong, it's just that kana is like the 5-years-old writting system, everything in japanese has kana in one way or another and I find it difficult to think of a way someone could even have the ability to learn to speak japanese without knowing how to read those.

In any case, your employee was right in that, it's hiragana for the syllabes "i", "ne", "nu", "ki", and "ki" again. He did pick them right, so are you sure the error is in the captcha and not in the name/password?