sicklittlemonkey wrote:
On Oct 17, 3:20 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:Having said that, there were, in fact, adaptations of the Apple II that supported 16-bit Kanji, IIRC, but they enjoyed a relatively small audience and an even smaller suite of applications.If you're talking about the Apple IIj Plus then it only supported katakana as an alternative text mode font in the character ROM. It is extremely annoying to read Japanese in this phonetic script, and I haven't found any software that uses it. If anybody finds some, let me know and I'll add support to AppleWin. If you're talking about something else, what is it?
In the late 1980's I saw machines in Taiwan and China using special video generator boards that displayed Kanji characters. I was thinking that at least one of them was a clone Apple II, but I may be mis- remembering. There were IBM clones with Kanji boards, and my memory may have "edited in" an Apple II. ;-) The reason they were of interest to me was that the OS software had been modified to use 16-bit characters for filenames, etc.! -michael NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."