mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) (06/09/89)
Hello you, I wonder if anybody has any information about a Japanese version of Emacs. Such a version may run under X windows and kterm. I will need some pointers to the sources for that Emacs. It doesn't have to be completely robust. Any information about it will be very wellcome. Thanks a lot, Thanasis
kato@cs.titech.JUNET (Akira Kato) (06/10/89)
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