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WWW Browsers that can display Japanese

Multi-Localization Enhancement of NCSA Mosaic for X

Multi-Localization Enhancement means that it makes use of various national character sets in NCSA Mosaic for X. You can switch between character sets in one Mosaic. It can display not only Japanese but also Czech, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Chinese, Korean and more characters.

For more detail, read this page.

Emacs Browser

Use W3 mode with Mule (MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs). W3 mode now supports Mule. (But you still should care with ange-ftp on Mule. Please consult D-2 in Mule-FAQ for detail)

As of today, W3 mode with Mule is the one and only truly multilingual WWW client. Check out this example. Many thanks to Bill and Shin-ya.

Note: W3 mode on Nemacs (Nihongo enhancement to GNU Emacs) causes core dump. Mule is better.

tkWWW Browser/Editor for X11

Use tkWWW with Japanized Tcl/Tk, and add the following two lines in your configuration file (~/.tkwww-config for 0.8, ~/.tkWWW-config for 0.9, why changed? :-).
	kanji internalCode EUC
	kanji defaultInputCode EUC
You can get the Japanization patches for Tcl/Tk from here.

You also need this patch to handle ISO-2022-JP encoded HTML documents correctly.

Note: When using tkWWW with Japanized Tcl/Tk, we have one problem. With Japanized Tcl/Tk, you could not use right half characters of ISO Latin-1. All 8-bit characters are treated as Japanese.

Line Mode Browser

Use line mode browser on kterm, exterm or other terminals that can display Japanese. Kterm and exterm are contained in X11R5 distribution (under contrib/clients).

You also need this patch to handle ISO-2022-JP encoded HTML documents correctly.

Xmosaic-1.2 for X11

There is Japanized xmosaic-1.2 (still in alpha-version) by Youichi Watanabe <youchan@se.fujitsu.co.jp>. The patch is here. It was only tested with ASCII OpenWare Motif and gcc-2.4.5. A binary for Sun4/SunOS4.1.[23] is also available.

Note: When using Japanized xmosaic, we have one problem. With Japanized xmosaic, you could not use right half characters of ISO Latin-1. All 8-bit characters are treated as Japanese.

Browsers for Macintosh and Windows

Some of WWW client can handle Japanese. Check out here for Mac and Windows.

(Encoding) (Patch)

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TAKADA Toshihiro