Most Asian fonts have the standard western characters in the same character positions as regular western fonts. The Asian characters are after those. Most of them are 16 bit fonts and require double keystrokes to type in the Asian characters.

You can see the characters (and copy/paste them) using the system Character Map utility: Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. (on older OS's the character map might be directly in the Accessories folder)

Thanks Dave - sometimes simple is so much better - wished I would have done this first. But I thought I was the only one in the world that had not figured out how to translate with my computer.

The google site Mark sent me too is kind of neat but did not work for the words I was needing - some came out Japanese some did not change.
That site could be very useful.