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From: erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Kanji on PC's (MS-DOS)
Message-ID: <4938@srava.sra.co.jp>
Date: 22 Jan 91 02:41:08 GMT
References: <1605@hpwala.wal.hp.com>
Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
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In article <1605@hpwala.wal.hp.com> lupienj@hpwarq.hp.com writes:
> Is there a standard for Japanese (Kanji) charater codes?

Yes, there are several. The most notable ones are JIS, Shift-JIS and
EUC. The most widely used Kanji code on MS-DOS is Shift-JIS, which is
also known as mskanji (note the "ms").


> More importantly, though, is there any good software for doing Kanji
> display and/or editing (w.p. stuff) that runs on a PC compatible?

I believe several articles have been posted to sci.lang.japan about
Kanji on MS-DOS. Perhaps you should try posting your questions there.
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Erik M. van der Poel                                      erik@sra.co.jp
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