From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 3 17:14:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA17356 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 17:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itojun.csl.sony.co.jp (root@itojun.csl.sony.co.jp [133.138.1.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA17336 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 17:13:21 -0700 (PDT) From: itojun@itojun.org Received: from localhost (itojun@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by itojun.csl.sony.co.jp (8.8.5/3.3W3) with ESMTP id JAA13707; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 09:09:53 +0900 (JST) To: Nate Williams Cc: Archie Cobbs , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD display 16-bit (Kanji) characters X-Template-Reply-To: itojun@itojun.org X-Template-Return-Receipt-To: itojun@itojun.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: F8 24 B4 2C 8C 98 57 FD 90 5F B4 60 79 54 16 E2 References: <199709032242.QAA29644@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-reply-to: Nate Williams 's message of Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:42:54 -0600 (MDT). <199709032242.QAA29644@rocky.mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: comp (MHng project) version 1997/08/04 03:38:46, by Jun-ichiro Itoh MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-ID: Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 09:09:52 +0900 Message-ID: <13704.873331792@itojun.csl.sony.co.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > How would one go about doing that, in X (and out if possible). I'm >> > messing around with Internationalization support in Java, and would like >> > to do something besides english language stuff. (Canadian support is >> > done fairly easily by adding 'Eh' to everything. *grin*) >> kterm, which I think is in the ports collection, is capable of displaying >> JIS character sets... >Hmm, that didn't seem to work. Methinks that 'unicode' support in Java >and NT is mostly hot-air, since actually displaying is non-existant as >far as we can tell. I believe there's no unicode-xterm nor unicode font for X. Unicode is not used at all in daily Japanese computing life. It is used in some specific systems, such as Java, Apple Newton, or BeOS. There's some conversion table between unicode<->jis, so you can write filter for that... >ps. I have the Japanese (jis) fonts installed, though they don't appear >to be used. kterm will use this. itojun