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> In Japan programming languages are the least of the problems their written
> language causes them. An incredible amount of data is never stored anywhere
> but on the original form, photocopies of said form, or faxed copies of said
> form. Even with the best tools available it's just too hard to keypunch.
> 
> This, of course, makes it even more amazing that they have been so succesful
> in the world community. It seems likely to me, though, that at some point
> they're going to have to break down and drop Kanji for professional use.

I don't know about that.  More and more machines are adding support for Kanji.
There are a large number of Japan-only (Japan-mostly?  I seem to remember Jun
Murai saying these groups were forwarded to Carnegie-Mellon) newgroups in which
most of the traffic is in Japanese, represented in Kanji.  (He said they added
Kanji support to X.10, including a "jterm" variant of "xterm" that emulated a
Kanji terminal.)  The NEC PC also includes Kanji support; it is often used as a
Kanji terminal.

These machines may not be able to handle every single Kanji character, but the
90/10 rule may apply.
	Guy Harris
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