small translation needed, please help if you can.

[RottNKorpse]

how do you say "It is an honor to meet you" in Japanese?

[Jason]

Well, litterally I guess you could say:

あなたに会って、光栄です。

However, I don't think this is a common greeting. It may be better to use よろしくお願いいたします。

[RottNKorpse]

thanks for your help dude

[Brody]

Here's what I found,

お目にかかれて光栄です。

I know you can say, 「またお目にかかれてうれしいです」　(I'm glad/it's good to see you again), so I think this might be right as well. Can't offer any concrete proof, as I haven't heard any such phrase be used by a native speaker. Sorry!
I'll try to keep it in mind to keep my ears alert and I'll let you know if I hear anything.

また！

[Jason]

お目にかかれて光栄です。

Wow. That's one heck of a polite sentence there.

[Alan]

お目にかかれて光栄です got a load of hits when I typed it into google.

I wonder why かかれて isn't 掛かれて。Assuming I've got the right kanji of course, which could easily not be the case as there's a wealth of homonyms. お目に掛かれて光栄です。doesn't give nearly the same number of hits in google. It's written as かかる in the examples in my dictionary as well. Anyway I digress.

お目にかかれて光栄です。
おめ　に　かかれて　こうえい　です。
It's an honour to fall on [your] eye.
i.e. it's an honour to be seen by you.

Is that right?

[Jason]

お目にかかれて光栄です。
おめ　に　かかれて　こうえい　です。
It's an honour to fall on [your] eye.
i.e. it's an honour to be seen by you.

Is that right?

Litterally, yes. お目にかかる is the humble form of 会う. As to why the kanji isn't used, I don't know.

[Bueller_007]

お目にかかれて光栄です。
おめ　に　かかれて　こうえい　です。
It's an honour to fall on [your] eye.
i.e. it's an honour to be seen by you.

Is that right?

Litterally, yes. お目にかかる is the humble form of 会う. As to why the kanji isn't used, I don't know.

I think it's because the hiragana "ka" contains only three strokes, and the kanji contains something like 11. Big time-saver, so it's been phased out.

Plus, there are a lot of different possible kanji for kakaru and kakareru as I recall, and I'm willing to bet that many Japanese people have no idea which one to use in this case. (Actually, I'm not sure that it's the one that Alan wrote, but I'm not on my computer now, so I can't check.)

[Brody]

お目にかかれて光栄です。

Wow. That's one heck of a polite sentence there.

Well, isn't "It's an honor to meet you" incredibly polite as well?
I can't really think of anything politer to say in English when meeting someone.
And it must be noted that when I looked up the above sentence, this preceded it
天皇陛下　(Your Majesty), so it's probably like Jason mentioned, even more polite in Japanese than its English counterpart.

If you are just looking for something nice to say when you meet someone, just stick to what Jason mentioned before (はじめまして；宜しくお願いします） This is what I've heard when I've met Japanese people (of course, there is the possibility they were just keeping it simple for my sake; but also look at some of the podcasts; this is what they say when they role-play introductions)

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