Subject: Re: oriental languages in X

From: susan lasovick <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 22:59:20 -0500

I recommend a starting place of Ken Lunde's 'Understanding Japanese
Information Processing,' published this Fall by O'Reilly- it provides a
thorough background in the composition and organization of JIS X
0208-1990 and JIS X 0212-1990, as well as their relation to GB 2312-80
and the Korean standard- as well as their juxtapostion with Big5 and a
variety of Corporate Japanese standards.  He also provides numerous ftp
soruces for other files and documents which will make much more sense
when you have read his book.

In particular, this book makes it pleasurable and easy for someone
familiar with Chinese encoding and character, character set organization
to search for and understand the organization of JIS character sets-
without having to have an in-depth knowledge of Japanese.

Best Regards,
Susan Lasovick
[email-masked]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1993, Kam Tsang wrote:

> Can anyone point me to some introductary text on non-roman languages
> (eg. Japanese, Chinese) on X (font-servers, JISX0208 fonts etc)?
> Books, chapters in books, FAQs, some files available via ftp, re-post
> of an old messages, etc, that kind of stuff.  Thanks for any pointers.
>
> -kam
>