SHIMIZU Kosuke wrote:
> Dear netters
>
> Could anyone advise how to obtain a computer programme which codifies
> Japanese language. My compute does not have it, so I am receiving letters
> which are stuffed with heaps of unreadable material. I suppose there must be
> ftp sites which provides the programme on the WWW.
to which we have the following suggestions:
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From: David Pottenger
dpotteng@SUNSET.BACKBONE.OLEMISS.EDU
Try the "UnionWay Home Page" at http://www.unionway.com/ for a Japanese
browser. http://www.unionway.com/download.html has all the information
you need to download. This is a free, sample program. You have to pay
money for Japanese text-writing capabilities, but it will let you read JIS and
S-JIS for free. Since I'm a poor student this is the only browser I have,
but it works rather well.
UnionWay will only be valid for two months or so, then it automatically
disappears. So, BEFORE you download it, change the date in your DOS to a
future one. For example, 3/14/97. Then, change it back to today's date
AFTER you download UnionWay. That way the UnionWay program will not
disappear until two months after 3/14/97.
By the way, it also reads Chinese and Korean. I hope this helps!
David Pottenger
University of Mississippi School of Law
Oxford, Mississippi, U.S.A.
dpotteng@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu
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From: SUGITA Yoneyuki
sugita@POST01.OSAKA-GAIDAI.AC.JP
Suggestion:
Get Microsoft Dos/V (about \10,000) and Windows 3.1/J (about \10,000).
Then you can use both English and Japanese IBM compatible software.
Yone
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From: Jan Goodwin
jan@U-AIZU.AC.JP
You do not say what computer and operating system you are using,
but if you are using a Unix system, you may have access to a
program called nkf. You can find out how it works by typing
man nkf
and you will get instructions.
--Janet Goodwin
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