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Re: Apple and Japanese computing

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From: Peter Payne
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:39
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Jeff Halverson <jeff> wrote:

> Wow, interesting.  YouEdit works w/o JLK or KanjiTalk?  I didn't think such
> a thing existed for Macintosh.  Where can I get it?

Sorry, you do need JLK or Kanjitalk.

> I've used Macintosh, Windows3.1J, and UNIX (Linux) with its Japanese support.
> The Mac's I found adequate, albiet quite expensive.  Windows-J was inadequate,
> but at least was bundled with Write-J for free.  (I found it exceedingly
> un-stable, thus the "inadequate" rank).

If you get a Performa you can the acclaimed Macwrite for free. It's
something, if free software is what you're looking for... Have you done
any Japanese input with Nisus? Nisus is great for things like that.

> Linux, I find superior to all others as far as internationalization.  Full
> Multilingual support versions of Mosaic exist (you can read Korean, Chinese,
> Japanaese, Russian, etc.) from it.

How is that accomplished? Someone just made the Japanese add-on for
free, because they wanted to be nice? How is text handled? I assume with
a bitmapped font system that it at least as good as Apple? Are the fonts
Truetype?

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Subject: Re: Apple and Japanese computing
Date: 21 Aug 1995 20:39:24 +0900
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