Hello! I think this causes the Japanese characters. Unlike most of European language(I don't know the correct terminology.), Japanese needs 2 bytes to display a character, so if a Japan se company develop English version of software, it can't run correctly in Japan se version of platform. Displaying Japanese characters requires different techniques. For instance, NEC had special ROM to display the characters. We can't use ASCII because we have more than 2000 characters. I hope Java can change this situation because of unicode. At 09:38 AM 11/9/98 +0300, you wrote: >Could anyone give me starting point: > >Why Japanese have faired well in the hardware industry but have made very >little impact on software. > >Thanx > > >
