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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!van-bc!news.rmii.com!usenet From: roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how to display Japanese characters? Date: 19 Sep 1996 08:07:51 -0600 Organization: X Inside Inc. Lines: 29 Sender: roell@xeno.xinside.com Message-ID: <87iv9a38eg.fsf@xeno.xinside.com> References: <51ojjb$7vn@news2.acs.oakland.edu> <32404872.3742@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fog.xinside.com In-reply-to: Ken Bigelow's message of Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:07:31 +0000 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <32404872.3742@www.play-hookey.com> Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: > 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. X Inside's CDE (shipping next week) has full internationalisation (sp?). This includes also support for asian locales, although we decided to render this support as beta-stage only. However I use regularly German locales as well as occasionally Japanese. dtterm is fully able to support the EUC escape sequences and can therefor print japanese text. If I would now be able to read it ... - Thomas -- Denver Office THOMAS ROELL /\ Das Reh springt hoch, +1(303)298-7478 X INSIDE INC / \/\ das Reh springt weit, 1801 Broadway, Suite 1710 / \ \/\ was soll es tun, Denver, CO 80202 roell@xinside.com / Oelch! \ \ es hat ja Zeit.