DOCUMENT ID: 1482-02

SYNOPSIS:    Japanese Processing with IUS

OS RELEASE:  Solaris x86

PRODUCT:     

KEYWORDS:    kanji japanese kterm x11 x window


DESCRIPTION:

Adding support for Japanese processing to Interactive Unix


SOLUTION:

Interactive Unix does not come with support for Japanese processing.  It
is possible, however, using The X Windowing System to add support for
text-based applications that need to do Japanese processing. 

If you are running X, you can install the application "kterm".  Kterm
stands for Kanji Terminal, and it will properly display japanese text. 
This will make it possible to run applications that do text-based
Japanese output. 
  
Kterm is capable of displaying SJIS, JIS, and EUC encoded Japanese. 
Both of these applications are freely distributable, and can be found
via ftp at export.lcs.mit.edu.  For X11R5 versions, cd to R5contrib, and
get the file:

 kterm-5.2.0.tar.gz

Kterm alone works great for reading and displaying Japanese.  However,
it does not come with a Front End Processor (FEP) for doing Japanese
input.  In order to be able to enter Japanese, you can use the program
"kinput2" which is a publically available FEP. 

In order to perform kana to kanji conversion kinput2 requires the
installation a conversion server.  kinput2 supports (among others) the
Wnn conversion server. 

kinput2 is available via ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu in the R5contrib
directory as:

 kinput2.tar.Z
  
Wnn is available from bash.cc.keio.ac.jp in the directory
pub/Japanese/Wnn as:

 Wnn4.2.tar.gz
  

DATE APPROVED: 07/28/95