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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: The real work of internationalization
Message-ID: <119@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 18:32:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 18:32:09 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 04:49:48 EDT
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Reply-To: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin minow)
Organization: DEC - ULTRIX Engineering Group
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Keywords: Japan Unix

Digital has sold a Japanese-language version of Ultrix (Unix) in Japan
for some time now.  It uses the VT80 Kanji terminal to display English,
Katakana (syllabic) or Kanji.  There are also Japanese-language versions
of other Dec operating systems.

IBM sells a Japanese-language version of the IBM-PC.

The VT80 terminal contains a built-in ROM with the most popular
Kanji representations.  It also has a RAM that can be down-line
loaded with other representations.  When the VT80 receives
an "unknown" Kanji, it sends an escape sequence to the host
computer -- which is interpreted by the terminal subsystem --
requesting a display representation of that character.

Martin Minow
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