Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!mrc From: mrc@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT computers in Japan Message-ID: <1991May12.232946.18893@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 12 May 91 23:29:46 GMT References: <1991May1.032402.29281@engin.umich.edu> Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 16 I am a member of NeXus, the Japanese NeXT users' group. As far as I know, the kanji NeXTstep support has not yet been released by Canon. Canon has, however, announced that when released the kanji support will cost Y150,000 (about US $1,100), ostensibly because of licensing costs for the two fonts. NeXus wrote a letter some time ago to Canon asking them to reconsider that exhorbitant pricing. I don't know if there has been any favorable response yet. People have been able to do kanji work on the NeXT for some time now using one of the various X support packages for the NeXT. However, in this form the NeXT is a poor competitor to domestic workstations and so there isn't all that much interest.