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From: hitoaki@kyo-sr.ntt.junet (SAKAMOTO Hitoaki)
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Subject: Re: Character sets: ISO 6937 vs ISO 8859
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Date: 7 Nov 90 08:18:58 GMT
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I am interest in X.400 with Japanese.  
My English is very poor, sorry. ( I want to write Japanese . )

>   Asia, where there are 3 main KANJI alphabets which are very difficult to
>   meld into some kind of single "alphabet". Japanese KANJI characters are
>   strictly limited, and Katagana characters are used as modifiers to
>   extend the limited set.  

Why do you think about Kanji characters? 

>   I sort of shudder at being required to enter Katagana or KANJI or
>   umlauts and accents into ORAddresses, now that X.400 allows T.61
>   characters on ORAddresses.  

I Think so..... 

>   I wonder how it can be done with my present
>   systems and keyboards?  

For example, Sun has JLE ( Japasnese Language Enviroment?). But We use
Normal Export version of Sun-OS and Keyboard. I do not sort of shudder. (^_^)
Because We are using X-Window System.

>   I have seen how the Japanese have modified EMACS to input and display
>   Katagana and KANJI.  Rather ingenious it is, and a real testimonial to
>   the power to EMACS.  

I use Japanese Emacs (Nemacs) with EGG now. It  is input and display
kanakana and Kanji characters. 

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Hitoaki Sakamoto  ( hitoaki@nttlab.ntt.jp )
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.
Tokyo Technical and Development Center.