H-Japan (E): MACs and Japanese language transmission

H-Japan Editor (j-edit@h-net.msu.edu)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:29:52 -0500

H-JAPAN
March 21. 1996

From: Geoff Froh
gfroh@us-japan.org

On March 21, 1996 Doug Slaymaker <dslaym@service1.uky.edu> wrote:

>I have read with interest all the discussions concerning reading Japanese
>e-mail. I have gotten that issue figured out. (I use a Power Mac with JLK
>and, now, Eudora-J). Now, with Netscape 1.12 how can I read Japanese
>language materials--the newpapers, etc.? I have the addresses and can
>access them, but whenever I click on the "Japanese" buttons I get the
>garble that has exasperated so many. What am I doing wrong?

If you already have JLK installed, simply choose "Fonts" from the
Preferences menu then select Japanese under the "Encoding" menu. You must
also pick Japanese fonts. Under Netscape 2.X, there is actually a menu item
called "Document Encoding" right under the Options menu.

Regards,

Geoff Froh
Project Manager, U.S.-Japan Links

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