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Japanese 1.2
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1. INSTALLATION
Click on Install to install to HardDrive.
If you want to install "by hand" follow the these steps:
1. Copy the file 'Japanese' and its icon 'Japanese.info' to your
WBStartup drawer (AmigaOS 1.3 users will have to copy it to C: or
another place and add the line 'Run C:Japanese' to
'S:Startup-Sequence'
2. Make a drawer called 'JIS' in 'FONTS:'
3. Copy the files 'JIS8' and 'JIS16' to the new drawer (FONTS:JIS/)
4. Copy this document and it's icon to 'HELP:english' , if you are
using AmigaOS 2.04 or below (no Locale) copy it somewhere else.
2. INTRODUCTION
Japanese is a patch that patches the textfunctions in graphics.library
(Text() and TextLength()) so that they can display japanese text
coded using EUC-JP,Shift-JIS,Old-JIS,New-JIS and NEC-JIS.
This program is FREEWARE, if you think it's nice and use it please send
me an E-MAIL if you have the opportunity.
3. USAGE
Japanese will be automatically launced when you boot up your AMIGA.
It will patch all text that have a height of 8-15 poits using an 8
point font, and text of height 16 or more using a 16 point font.
I recomend that you set your screen font, and system font to a 16
point one (for example wlook, comes whith JMore, I think that one
is nice).
3.1 TOOLTYPES
The dection of EUC-JP and Shift-JIS can be set by setting the
tooltype ENCODING to the appropriate value:
ENCODING=<mode>
where <mode> is AUTO,EUC-JP or SJIS
AUTO sets automatical detection of EUC-JP and Shift-JIS.
EUC-JP sets the encoding to EUC-JP mode (Shift-JIS encoded text will
NOT get displayed correctly if this mode is set.
SJIS sets the encoding to Shift-JIS mode (EUC-JP encoded text will
NOT get displayed correctly if this mode is set.
The reason for this is that these two encoding works quite similar,
and there is a potential risk that text will be displayed incorrectly
if set to AUTO, if this happens try setting the mode to the particular
encoding you are using. If you have been using Netscape you should know
what it's all about.
Normally it should be set to 'AUTO'.
The other formats can always be detected without any problems.
3.2 COMMODITIE-INTERFACE
Japanese has got a commoditie interface (only works with AmigaOS 2.04
and above, ofcourse).
Currently only the Enable/Disable is implemented, this does
(surprice :-)) turn the decoding on and off.
Turn it off if some program seems to have problems because of the patch
(Typeface, PD fonteditor is the only one I've found not working).
4. REQUIREMENTS
Japanese should work on any AMIGA (I hope so) , commoditie interface
requires AmigaOS 2.04 or above.
It takes about 350 kb CHIP-ram for the fontdata and about 5 kb for
the program itself , so 1 Meg CHIP is welcome , 2 is just great.
5. BUGS
The TextLength() function is not fully implemented could perhaps cause
some problems.
Proportional fonts seems to be a problem, I think it' caused by the
funtion mentioned abouve, no big problem since the fonts used for
japanese text is fixed width (16 and 8 points).
6. CREDITS (in alphbetic order)
Antonio D'Angelo, for JIWA
Dwight Hubbard, for JISConvert
Ken Lunde, for DOCS about CJK encoding
Shigeru Noro, at SystCom, for moral support
H. Ohkubo, for JMore
Benoit Socias, for KEZACO
Tetsuo Tawara, for JLE
Daniel Weber, for ProASM
...and the persons I've forgot.
7. CONTACT
E-Mail: t95mlu@student.tdb.uu.se
URL: http://www.student.tdb.uu.se/~t95mlu
Snail: Marcus Lundblad
Kantorsg. 16 : 152
S-754 24 UPPSALA
Sweden
Phone: +46 18 250582