FAQ FOR SCI.LANG.JAPAN - SOFTWARE FOR JAPANESE INFORMATION PROCESSING

You can find more information on Ken Lunde's japan.inf (Electronic Handling of Japanese Text) file, on the FTP sites:

More details are on Ken Lunde's book, Understanding Japanese Information Processing, an excellent book, highly recommended to all who wants to process Japanese Information - that includes Japanese word-processing, e-mail, etc. See also Machine-readable data from "Understanding Japanese Information Processing" These are some basic descriptions of programs and utilities, specially for learning tools, displaying Japanese and Japanese word processing.

SOFTWARE LISTING/DESCRIPTIONS BY PLATFORM:

For DOS
For Windows
For Unix, X
For MAC
For Amiga

OTHER SOFTWARE RELATED TOPICS (FILES, ETC.)

Machine-readable data from "Understanding Japanese Information Processing

Machine-readable data (such as source code, character lists, and mapping tables) from Understanding Japanese Information Processing are available at FTP sites:

KANJI OF THE DAY FILES

Kanji of the Day are contributions from Mr. Kurt Stueber that presents one kanji with descriptions on its radicals, code information (JIS, Nelson, etc.), On- and Kun- readings, mnemonics, compounds, lots of interesting data for those learning Kanji. Usually are posted to the listserver, and goes to the sci.lang.japan newsgroup. Back issues of "Kanji of the Day" can be found at the FTP sites:

The files are ASCII, the kanjis are represented in a 24x24 *-matrix.

KANASHEET

KanaSheet is a nice free PostScript program that gives you plenty of practice pages for hiragana and katakana, by Harald Kucharek. You can get the version 2.1 of KanaSheet on the FTP sites:

NIHON NO KOTOWASA

Tim Duncan contributes regularly with this interesting series, on proverbs (sp ?), in the newsgroup sci.lang.japan, or you can get them on the FTP sites/directories:

INFORMATION FOR DEVELOPERS

This section just points to some files of interest for those that wants to develop programs related to Japanese Language. Basically, are pointers on where to get bitmaps, dictionary files, references etc.
For anybody considering developing of these programs, I recommend getting Ken Lunde's book, Understanding Japanese Information Processing.

JIM BREEN'S EDICT AND KANJIDIC FILES

These files provides lots of information on kanjis, codes, readings, meanings (KANJIDIC) and Japanese-English correspondence (EDICT). Format is available on some read-me files. Can be found in the same FTP sites that carry the JDIC program, but first at:

JAPANESE (KANJI) BITMAP FONTS

You can find a large collection of Japanese fonts for X (bdf format) in FTP sites:

PEOPLE TO CONTACT (AUTHORS, ETC.)

Please tell me if you want/don't want your name here as an author/developer so other people can contact you. URLs are also welcome.

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Rafael Santos (santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp) Last Update: April 13, 1995