Japanese Computing on Athena at MIT

NOTE: These instructions are intended for MIT/Athena users only, and may not be applicable to other systems' installations of the same software!

Reading Japanese on the Web

Help for reading the Web in Japanese

Using Quicktime format files

Platform-specific information on configuring your Web browser to handle the Quicktime-format files used on this site

Printing from the Web on Athena

How to print Web pages containing Japanese text on Athena workstations.

General Purpose tools:

mule

a "Multi-Language Emacs" capable of Japanese text entry and display.

kterm

a kanji-display capable version of the xterm software; it can only display Japanese, and does not allow entry of Japanese text.

xjdic

a Japanese/English, English/Japanese and Kanji dictionary

Dictionary-Linking Documents

Instructions for using a tool to automatically build and display a glossary for a chunk of Japanese text

More complicated tasks:

Netnews in Japanese

There are over 300 Usenet newsgroups conducted primarily in Japanese. Using a mule-based netnews reader ("gnus") you can read them, and participate in them, in Japanese.

Email in Japanese

Again, using mule as the user-interface, you can read and send email in Japanese.

Text Processing in Japanese

A description of the basic text processing capabilities available on Athena in Japanese.