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Top Document: soc.culture.japan FAQ [Monthly Posting] [3/3] Previous Document: (7.2) E-Mail address for xxx in Japan Next Document: (7.3.1) Japanese on the Macintosh See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Last update: 4/97 Note: This section is not meant to be an exhaustive guide. For more comprehensive treatments of this topic, see <http://www.tjp.washington.edu/Computing/Japanese/> and <http://www.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp/cgi-bin/japanese> This question is broken down into three subsections, Macintosh, IBM (PC and compatibles), and Unix. Unix means mostly X-windows software. Reading Japanese on a computer requires a terminal emulator or text editor program that 1) handles the two byte character set(s) which are used for transmitting kanji electronically; and 2) Displays the text in a readable form, at least one kanji font is generally required. Writing Japanese requires an input system, which may or may not be built in to a text editor. The input system takes keyboard input, usually romaji, converts to kana, and then converts words or phrases to kanji. An article from Ken Lunde which describes character encoding and other aspects of Japanese language on computers is available at several FTP sites. There are several FTP sites which carry Japanese related software. Try one near you first before trying one on the other side of an ocean. North America <ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Japanese/> Lots of stuff for all platforms <ftp://mindseye.berkeley.edu/pub/kanji/> A few MS-DOS utilities Japan <ftp://azabu.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/> Japanese related programs for PCs <ftp://utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/> jTeX <ftp://scslwide.sony.co.jp/> a few MS-DOS utilities <ftp://ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp/> <ftp://ftp.tohoku.ac.jp/> lots of good stuff Australia <ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/> A few MS-DOS and Mac utilities many language references including kanjidic and edict dictionary files Europe <ftp://kuso.shef.ac.uk/pub/japanese/> <ftp://kuso.shef.ac.uk/pub/news/fj/> Mirrors: ftp.cc.monash.edu.au as well as other things <ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/cluture/japan/> lots of stuff User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.japan FAQ [Monthly Posting] [3/3] Previous Document: (7.2) E-Mail address for xxx in Japan Next Document: (7.3.1) Japanese on the Macintosh Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: shimpei@gol.com (Shimpei Yamashita)
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