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>From lunde@mv.us.adobe.com Thu Jun 24 15:05:59 1993
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 93 06:03:51 PDT
From: lunde@mv.us.adobe.com (Ken Lunde)
Message-Id: <9306241303.AA13232@lithos.mv.us.adobe.com>
To: jbowyer@cis.vutbr.cs
Subject: Re:  japan.inf

I received the following information from Ken Lunde (lunde@adobe.com)
regarding his soon-to-be-published book _Understanding Japanese
Information Processing_.

Ken earlier "teased" us with the table of contents for this book.


Jeff
INSOFT-L List Manager

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 Jeff Bowyer                         EMail:
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	The latest version of JAPAN.INF is 1.2, and is dated March 1992. As
(I hope) you know, because I posted its TOC to your list recently, I am
turning JAPAN.INF into a book called "Understanding Japanese Information
Processing." This does not spell an end to JAPAN.INF, but means that it
is being split into a book and an online document (containing time-
sensitive info).
	Once the book is out, the *official* site for obtaining the latest
JAPAN.INF will be ftp.ora.com (my publisher's FTP site), and anyone can
feel free to mirror the material on their own FTP sites. I will also have
other goodies, such as a lot of the tables, lists, and code from the book
in electronic form.
	I am appending three things: the flier for the book, the table of
contents, and a Q&A that describes what will happen to JAPAN.INF (how it
will evolve now that the book is almost out). Feel free to post these on
your FTP site as the files: ujip.txt, ujip-toc.txt, and ujip-qa.txt.

[Note from Jeff: I am not including the table of contents here because it
                 was already posted to INSOFT-L.  All of these files are
		 available from our anonymous ftp server:

		      Site: rhino.cis.vutbr.cz
		      Directory: pub/lists/insoft-l/doc/japanese
		      Files:     ujip.txt
		                 ujip-toc.txt
				 ujip-qa.txt

                 In addition, please note that the file japan.inf has
		 moved to this directory.
]
				
-- Ken


== ujip.txt ==========================================================

"Understanding Japanese Information Processing"
by Ken Lunde
Published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.

ISBN 1-56592-043-0

Publication date:  Summer/Fall 1993 (estimated)
Pages:             450 (estimated)
Price:             $29.95 (estimated)

About this Book:

There are many complex issues surrounding the use of the Japanese
language in computing. Unlike English, which has 26 letters in a
single alphabet, Japanese has thousands of characters in three
scripts. The issues around handling such an unwieldy collection
of data are formidable and complex. Up to now, researching and
understanding the relevant issues has been a difficult, if not
unattainable task, especially to a person who doesn't read or
speak Japanese.

"Understanding Japanese Information Processing" is a book that
provides detailed information on all aspects of handling Japanese
text on computer systems. It tries to bring all of the relevant
information together in a single book. It covers everything from the
origins of modern-day Japanese to the latest information on specific
emerging computer encoding standards.

Here is a sampling of the topics covered:

- The Japanese writing system
- Japanese character set standards
- Japanese encoding methods
- Japanese input
- Japanese output
- Japanese code conversion techniques
- Japanese code and text processing tools
- Japanese e-mail

In addition, there are over 15 appendices which provide additional
reference material, such as a code conversion table, character set
tables, mapping tables, an extensive list of software sources, a
glossary, and much more.

Ken Lunde is the Project Manager for Japanese Font Production at Adobe
Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of computer-based font
technologies. The author also created and maintains an on-line
document entitled JAPAN.INF, which has become an invaluable resource
for people trying to understand the issues involved in dealing with
Japanese text. The book expands on the topics covered in JAPAN.INF,
and contains a rich complement of figures, tables, and lists
unavailable in the on-line document.

Both O'Reilly & Associates and the author are excited about the
publication of this book because it fills a large void for
information about the Japanese language for English-language readers.
This book is able to both describe the Japanese language
generally and cover very detailed specifics about implementing the
language on computers. Even a person with only a casual
interest in languages will find the book engaging. A programmer
interested in writing a computer program which will handle the
Japanese language will find the book indispensable.

For more information on this book, contact:

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA 95472 USA
(800) 998-9938    (707) 829-0515    Fax: (707) 829-0104
UUCP:	uunet!ora!nuts      Internet:   nuts@ora.com


== ujip-qa.txt =======================================================

	I recently posted the announcement for my upcoming book entitled
"Understanding Japanese Information Processing." I know that I will be
bombarded with questions, so I have prepared this small Q & A (questions
and answers). Hopefully it will answer any questions you may have.

1) Does this book mean an end to JAPAN.INF?

   No. Both documents will be maintained in tandem. JAPAN.INF will serve
   as an addendum for the book, and will contain time-sensitive information.
   The new version of JAPAN.INF (which will be much smaller) will be
   released shortly after the book is published.

2) I have seen many Western books that don't do a decent job at printing
   Japanese text. Are we going to see crummy bitmaps for the Japanese
   portions?

   I am the Project Manager for Japanese Font Production at Adobe Systems.
   We produce PostScript Japanese fonts which are scalable, and can be
   output at any resolution. Need I say more? Expect high-quality printing.

3) How much more information is in this book compared to JAPAN.INF?

   When I extracted all the information I could from JAPAN.INF, I had only
   about 30 pages or so. The book will be approximately 450 pages. This
   should give you a rough idea about how much material has been added.

I will add more questions and answers to this file as I see fit. Thank you
for your interest.

-- Ken Lunde
   lunde@mv.us.adobe.com