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From: kato@cs.titech.JUNET (Akira Kato)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,soc.culture.japan,gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Japanese GNU Emacs.
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Date: 10 Jun 89 15:43:30 GMT
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The major Japanese emacs is nemacs and kemacs; nemacs was based on
GNU emacs and kemacs was based on micro emacs. We have no direct
input method (I mean kana-kanji conversion) on kemacs and it is
used with kana-kanji conversion front-end.

On nemacs two kana-kanji conversion packages are available; one
is SKK which is developed in Tohoku University. Its conversion
capability is not excellent, however, no other program is necessary.
Another one is EGG developed in Electrotechnical Laboratory.
It provides kana-kanji conversion function by talking with jserver
which performs actual kana-kanji conversion. Jserver is a part
of product of WNN system and is licensed by Astec Corp. (the
price is several hundred dollars and source code is available)

I will participate the USENIX conference which will be held in
Baltimore soon with a copy of the source code. (Of course,
jserver is not available) 

Akira Kato, Tokyo Institute of Technology

kato@cs.titech.ac.jp