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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Kanji on the Mac
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Date: 10 Feb 89 18:53:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Feb 10 12:53:00 1989


wdh@well.UUCP(Bill Hofmann) writes in comp.sys.mac

>In article <1376@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
>>We are hosting a vistor from Japan who would like to write documents
>>in Kanji to be printed on a laser printer and sent back to Japan.
>>
>>What is KanjiTalk and what does it accomplish?
>KanjiTalk 1.1 is a version of the script manager that supports Japanese,
>entered as Katakana or Hiragana.  It comes on two disks, one that has
>fonts and the other that has system and finder (with Japanese naming).
>I'm not sure what system level it is.  It does work on a Plus, so ought
>to work on an SE or II, at least in 2 bit mode.  KanjiTalk 2.0 is either
>under development or just released.  Of course, APDA doesn't have it yet.
>
	I can't let this go without a correction. Sorry Bill...

	THE SCRIPT MANAGER IS NOT THE SAME AS AN INTERFACE SYSTEM!!!

	The Script Manager (SM) is the underlying mechanism (Toolbox Manager - like
the Window or Menu Manager) by which foreign language processing is done under
the Macintosh O.S.
	An Interface System is a localized version of the files contained on the
System Tools disks (example include AIS (Arabic Interface System) and KIS
(Kanji Interface System)) which may also include a series of additional files
such as INITs and language dictionaries which are required to properly 
implemented processing in that language.

	Sorry again for the tirade, but I wanted to clear this up....

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