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From: dye@laidbak.UUCP (Ken R. Dye )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Using Kanji Xterm, how ?
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Date: 13 Jun 89 14:55:54 GMT
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Reply-To: dye@laidbak.UUCP (Ken R. Dye )
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In article <8906091224.AA02666@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU writes:
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<    I can cat out the README.j file fine, with lots of Kanji in it, but am
<    baffled about how to type or otherwise create my own Kanji text with
<    it.
<
<If it's comparable to the kterm that's been around for some time (I haven't
<seen it), you can't type Kanji, it's output-only.  The efforts that I am aware
<of for Kanji input use a separate server process for Kana-Kanji conversion,
<that the kterm has to talk to.
<
<    Clues, hints, suggestions?
<
<Wait a while?  I expect to receive a variety of Kanji support code and
<applications from the SIGMA Project's X-Window Japanese Version Working Group
<for inclusion in R4 (and conceivably available sooner).

	AT&T has a package (Japanese Application Environment) called
JAE which includes a STREAMS based line disipline which can handle
Kanji input; also available is the JIO streams module which adds
dictonary conversion of Kuten numbers or Hiragana mnemonics to Kanji.
It works fine with kterm.
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