Hello Shillito
On 21-Jan-01, Shillito wrote:
>
> The bad news is as follows:
>
> The overwhelming majority of Japanese langauge sites specify their
> CHARSET as x-sjis (or something which means the same), a muddled-up
> Japanese "standard" created by Micro$oft, which like all Microsoft
> things is merely a copy of other standards where others though of the
> idea and did all the work, and Micro$oft comes along, changes it a bit
> to make it non-standard, and issues their own version of it, which we
> all like sheep are forced to use.
I see O'Reilly have a big book on Asian languages,
CJKV Information Processing
Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing
By Ken Lunde
1st Edition December 1998
1-56592-224-7, Order Number: 2247
1125 pages, $64.95
Too expensive to buy, but a library should be able to get it for you.
It looks good.
It might be a good idea to enroll one of the Japanese Amiga users to
help with this project. Amiga Japan Web Ring Home page is here
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/4951/amigajring.htm
This site has a useful list of fonts.
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/
Regards
--
Don Cox
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