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From: okamoto@chigaku.souka.osakafu-u.ac.jp (Kenji Okamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.msdos.apps,sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese Terminal Emulator for Windows wanted?
Summary: Japanese DOS/V, Win3 for Japanese
Message-ID: <136@earth.chigaku.souka.osakafu-u.ac.jp>
Date: 13 Jun 91 03:45:16 GMT
References: <580sis-b@massey.ac.nz>
Followup-To: comp.windows.ms
Organization: Earth Science, Univ of Osaka Prefecture
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In article <580sis-b@massey.ac.nz>, news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:
> Does anyone know of a terminal emulator for Windows that can handle
> Japanese (or any other asian languages that use 2-byte encoding) ?

According to my knowledge, if you want to use Japanse on MS-Windows, you
have to prepare Japanese DOS and Japanese version of Win3.  Fortunately,
these are available from IBM Japan.

The Japanese DOS is named as DOS/V (about 20,000yen), which runs on a 
AT/clone or PS/2 machine with VGA and about 2MB RAM.  I recommnend you
to use 386 (/SX) machine.

The Japanese version of Win3 (about 23,000yen), which also run 
on a same machine.  Also I recommend 386 machines and above 3MB RAM.
This Win3 needs DOS/V to use Japanese.   If you installed these OS and
,what shall I say, OS attachment?(^_^), you can use many Terminal Emulators
for Japanese evenif it may not be made apparently for Japanese.   However,
this does not certify the use of Japanese completely.  Some problems may
arrise, if the software does not made for Japanese, such as the most 
significant bit is used for the other purpose, something like that.

If you want to print out Japanese on printers, of course, you need Japanese
version of Epson printer :-)


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