From: pjyamamo@WATDRAGON.WATERLOO.EDU
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.nihongo
Subject: Re: Software on Unix.
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:46:39 GMT
Distribution: fj

In article <9207231206.AA04010@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> you write:
>Dear fellow netters,
>I was wondering if any of you knows about software to help learn japanese,
>under Unix and X11. All I see is software for MS-DOS, but Unix would be
>more convenient for me.
>Thank you all !

has anybody heeded your call for help?

Peter
JAPAN.INF Version 1.2

ELECTRONIC HANDLING OF JAPANESE TEXT

March 20, 1992

Ken R. Lunde ($B>.NS(J $B7u(J)
Adobe Systems Incorporated
1585 Charleston Road
P.O. Box 7900
Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 USA
(415)361-1702 (home)
(415)962-3866 (office)
(415)960-0886 (fax)
lunde@adobe.com

     This document is a description of how Japanese text (i.e., kana and
kanji) is handled electronically, how to send/receive Japanese text using
electronic mail, and how to set up your computer so that it can process
Japanese text. I am absolutely delighted to share this information with
others, and I would appreciate any comments/feedback on its content. Since
some of the information contained within this document changes on a monthly,
even weekly basis, I keep the current copy in electronic form. The current
version of this document will be made available from at least two sources: at
the FTP sites ucdavis.edu (128.120.2.1) and msi.umn.edu (128.101.24.1). It may
also be obtained by contacting me directly using the above electronic mail
address.

[NOTE: This document contains Japanese characters in New-JIS code. If you are
unable to view this document in Japanese even though you are running under a
Japanese environment, there are three possible reasons and remedies: 1) The
"escape" characters were stripped from this document -- use my program called
"repair-jis.c" to fix it (at FTP site ucdavis.edu (128.120.2.1) in the pub/
JIS/C directory); 2) Your software does not interpret New-JIS, so find out
what Japanese code(s) it interprets, then use my jis.c program (at the FTP
site ucdavis.edu (128.120.2.1) in the pub/JIS/C directory) to convert this
document to an appropriate Japanese code for viewing with your software; or 3)
a combination of 1 and 2 above. I have also made Macintosh ports of these
programs, and they are available at the FTP site scslwide.sony.co.jp
(133.138.199.1) as REPAIR-JIS v1.0 and JIS v2.2.]


TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  WHAT'S NEW
  DISCLAIMER
  INTRODUCTION
  PART 0: THE JAPANESE CHARACTER SET
    0.1: ELECTRONIC CHARACTER SETS
      0.1.1: JIS X 0208-1990
      0.1.2: JIS X 0212-1990
      0.1.3: UNICODE/ISO DIS 10646
    0.2: NON-ELECTRONIC CHARACTER SETS
    0.3: JOUYOU KANJI TABLE
  PART 1: 7-BIT JAPANESE CODES (JIS)
    1.1: JIS7
    1.2: JIS8
  PART 2: 8-BIT JAPANESE CODES (SHIFT-JIS & EUC)
    2.1: SHIFT-JIS:
    2.2: EUC (EXTENDED UNIX CODE):
  PART 3: SENDING JAPANESE
    3.1: SENDING JAPANESE UNDER UNIX
    3.2: SENDING JAPANESE UNDER VMS
    3.3: SENDING JAPANESE UNDER COMPUSERVE
    3.4: SENDING JAPANESE UNDER APPLELINK
  PART 4: RECEIVING JAPANESE
    4.1: RECEIVING JAPANESE UNDER VMS
    4.2: RECEIVING JAPANESE UNDER UNIX/COMPUSERVE
  PART 5: JAPANESE CODE CONVERSION
    5.1: PORTABLE PROGRAMS
    5.2: PROGRAMS FOR THE MACINTOSH
    5.3: REPAIRING DAMAGED JIS-ENCODED JAPANESE FILES
    5.4: ALGORITHMS
  PART 6: JAPANESE E-MAIL NETWORKS AND ADDRESSING TEMPLATES
    6.1: JUNET
    6.2: BITNET
    6.3: NIFTYSERVE
    6.4: TWICS
  PART 7: JUNET NEWS
  PART 8: HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
    8.1: GENERAL MAINFRAMES
    8.2: NeXT
    8.3: UNIX
    8.4: MS-DOS
    8.5: MACINTOSH
    8.6: AMIGA
    8.7: DEDICATED JAPANESE WORD PROCESSORS
    8.8: POSTSCRIPT HANDLING OF JAPANESE
  PART 9: ON-LINE JAPANESE DICTIONARIES
    9.1: MACINTOSH-BASED DICTIONARIES
    9.2: MS-DOS-BASED DICTIONARIES
  A FINAL NOTE
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  APPENDIX 1: BITNET NODES IN JAPAN
  APPENDIX 2: JUNET DOMAINS
  APPENDIX 3: JUNET NEWS NEWSGROUPS
  APPENDIX 4: FREEWARE/SHAREWARE SOURCES
  APPENDIX 5: COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE SOURCES


WHAT'S NEW
     This version of JAPAN.INF offers many changes. I essentially did a
complete overhaul of the document (that is why it took so long to be
released). Here is a summary of changes/additions:

  - I renamed the document as "ELECTRONIC HANDLING OF JAPANESE TEXT," which
    seems to be a more appropriate title.
  - I broke down most of the document sections into subsections, and also
    listed these subsections in the TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  - I expanded PART 0 to give a more detailed overview of the various Japanese
    character sets, to include non-electronic ones.
  - I beefed up PART 5 to include more information on Japanese electronic code
    conversion, to include actual algorithms.
  - The information that was previously in PART 7 was put into PART 6.1 (PART
    7 was subsequently deleted). Also, I made some changes to the addressing
    templates used for sending email to JUNET sites. This change was due to
    the shut-down of relay.cs.net.
  - Added a section on NIFTYSERVE (6.3) and TWICS (6.4)
  - Added a section for AMIGA (8.6)
  - Added a section on PostScript handling of Japanese (8.8)
  - I added a section (PART 9) in which I describe several on-line Japanese
    dictionaries.
  - I added to the BIBLIOGRAPHY the locations and phone numbers for three
    Kinokuniya Bookstore locations in the US through which the Japanese books
    may be ordered. I also added a few more references to that section.
  - I added an appendix (APPENDIX 4) in which are listed the sources for all
    the FreeWare and Sharware described in JAPAN.INF. I also added one for
    commercial software (APPENDIX 5).
  - Other minor changes were made throughout the document, such as correcting
    typos, changing the wording of some sentences, adding more information
    under existing sections, etc.


DISCLAIMER
     Although I list my address here at Adobe Systems Incorporated for contact
purposes, Adobe Systems Incorporated does not endorse this document which I
have created, and have continued (and will continue) to update on a regular
basis. This document is a personal endeavor to inform people of how Japanese
can be handled on a variety of platforms.


INTRODUCTION
     Electronic mail has become a very efficient means of communicating both
locally and world-wide. While it is very simple to send text which uses only
the 94 printable ASCII characters, character sets which contains more than
these ASCII characters pose special problems. In this document, I will
describe how Japanese characters are processed electronically on various
platforms, and how these characters can be transmitted using electronic mail.
     This report contains actual Japanese text throughout, so don't be alarmed
if strange sequences of ASCII characters appear. All Japanese contained in
this document is in New-JIS code.