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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Can someone explain the various forms of Japanese text encoding?
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>  * Thanks for clearing this up!  I'm going to save this message somewhere
>  * for future reference.. :-)
> 
> You're welcome...someone in Japan with the JIS Handbook can give you
> more details if needed.... :)

Or I have a copy; actually, the most useful book on the subject for
an English speaker is O'Reillys "Understanding Japanese Information
Processing"; you can see all their propaganda online at:

http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/ujip.html

It doesn't discuss Romanji (mostly because it really isn't used
escept as an educational tool to learn a language one direction or
the other.

Taligent has a number of nice translation tables and fonts online
as part of Unicode (which is a bad word in Japan).  You can get a
lot of Unicode info at:

http://www.stonehand.com/unicode.html (www.unicode.org).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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