Re: [WinMac] Japanese text on PC (off topic?)

Changhsu P. Liu(cpl874[at]optimum.com)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:56:58 -0500

>At 8:39 PM -0500 7/29/99, Harrison, Stacey wrote:
>>We are currently using Apple's Japanese Language Kit on our Macs and
>>formatting via Illustrator, then importing into XPress documents. We will
>>soon be moving over to PC based systems running with NT (ahhhhh, corporate
>>america...) and I've yet to come across any programs that will work
>>similarly to the JLK on the PC. Usually the files are provided by our
>>translators as MS Word files.

I don't know if it works for you, but I found I can read Chinese on
Win95/98 English System by installing Microsoft's language components. You
can find the download by choosing Windows Update from Tools menu in
Internet Explorer 5. I believe there're Chinese (traditional, simplified),
Korean, and Japanese components (and many others) there. They may have
input components there too, but I have never used it. Also, Office 2000
seems to be able to open documents in other languages very well.

Also check out:
http://www.njstar.com/
http://www.twinbridge.com/

With one of these two products, you can display and input Japanese (and
other Eastern Asia languages). They probably work better than MS's solution
since they have been in the market for a while.

Please keep us posted on your findings,

Regards,

Changhsu Liu
cpl874@optimum.com

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