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I'm attempting to display kana/kanji in a kterm.  The kterm( version???)
is on a sun running X11R5/Motif 1.2.

The strings were entered on a Macintosh using KanjiTalk and transferred to
Unix.  I then ran 'jis' on the strings to put them in the ^[$B ... ^[(J
format.

If I compile/link my test programs using Sun's BSD curses and run the
program in a kterm the strings show up in Japanese.

If I compile/link my test program using Sun's System V curses and run the
program in a kterm the strings show up as jibberish.  It doesn't seem
to interpret the escape sequences properly.  The escape (^[ ) is displayed
on the screen.  I installed terminfo.kt and set TERM=kterm without any luck.

Could the net provide any wisdom for getting Japanese strings to display 
properly using Sun's System V curses on a kterm?

Thanks in advance,
dave