coffey@ucselx@sdsu (pat coffey) (10/27/88)
Kanji and Kana? I'm interested in a word processor or terminal emulation
program that speaks jis kanji. Thanks in advance
_ _ Pat Coffey
|_) (_ San Diego State University
| V61@DHDURZ1.BITNET (Ronald Lamprecht) (11/17/88)
In "Info-Atari16 Digest Thursday, October 27, 1988 Volume 88 : Issue 462" Pat Coffey: ucsdhub!sdsu!ucselx!coffey@ucsd.edu asked: > Kanji and Kana? I'm interested in a word processor or terminal emulation > program that speaks jis kanji. Thanks in advance I never saw an answer ! No one else interested ? In the German ST-Computer (1988/10 ?) there was a short message that stated that the University of Bremen (W-Germany) has developed an editor for Chinese Kanji. They showed it at the fair of Duesseldorf and it was named something like 'SINOTEX(T)'. They announced also an editor for Japanese Kanji and Kana. Sorry, but I don't remeber the prices and distributors. A second article was published in ST_Computer (1988/11, p98): 'Der ST im UNI- Einsatz', where they described the project TECHIS from the 'Technische Universitaet Berlin'. They have developed a system that scans Chinese texts and translates them to the standard 'GB 2312-80' (Something similar to the ASCII code for the Kanji). My questions: Does anyone know more details about this 'GB 2312-80' standard ? Exists there a similar one, or an extension for the Japanese Kanji and Kana ? I remember that I have read some 3 years ago a paper that states that someone with a Chinese name at an American university (Stanford ?) had made some investigations about the possibility to produce Kanji with Metafont and use them with TeX. Does anyone know whether there exist such Metafont definition files ? At least, it shouldn't be too difficult to write an editor for Kanji and Kana, because you really don't need proportional spacing. The problem will be the input of the Kanji pixel images. No one interested in doing this job ? I would appreciate such a work, because I could edit my homework for my Japanese courses on my computer. Bitnet: V61@DHDURZ1 Ronald Lamprecht UUCP: ...!unido!DHDURZ1.bitnet!V61 Theoretische Physik ARPAnet: V61%DHDURZ1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Heidelberg, West Germany)