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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Kanji on the Mac
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Date: 8 Feb 89 07:16:51 GMT
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In article <1376@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
>If one can use a US Mac, what is required in the way of system level
>software?
>What is KanjiTalk and what does it accomplish?
KanjiTalk, available from APDA is a complete finder and o.s. for mixed
Japanese/English use for the Macintosh. It is based on a fairly old release
of The Macintosh O.S., so some of the more recent applications may run
with reduced functionality.  You get fonts, and a new keyboard map, and
script mamager upgrades to be able to handle the >6000 symbol kanji
fonts.  Programs like exccel and the finder, that use TextEdit for their
text manipluation will run fine in KanjiTalk.

Word processors generally do not use TextEdit, so unless they specifically
say Script Manager compatible, they will give problems.  Most American
companies that produce Japanese versions of their products do not sell
them in the U.S. because they can't adequately support them here.

Qualitas Trading Company, Berkeley CA. imports Japanese versions of
American software and sells them in this country.  For example, they stock
the Japanese version of PageMaker.

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