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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how to display Japanese characters?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:07:31 +0000
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awmunn wrote:
> 
>         Can FreeBSD be made to display japanese characters?  either
> through a text mode or under X?  How?
> 

Seems to me they have some oriental fonts. I know they had the option of
a Cyrillic font when I installed it. If the Xfree distributions at
ftp.freebsd.org don't include at least the katakana set, check with the
Xfree site directly.
-- 
Ken

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