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Japanese Text Viewer for non-japanese OS/2
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Last Update 2002-02-01 (Update History)
About
AKAN Kanji Font library (DLLs) and its test program 'akview.exe' is my old attempt to view japanese text on non-japanese version OS/2. Before I got japanese version of OS/2, I'm using this program to read japanse texts (with V2.0). After I got japanese version of OS/2 (first one was V2.1J), I stopped development, and programs are saved to bottom of my archives.
Few days ago, I read mail at os2user@yahoogroups.com asking how to read japanese text on non-japanese OS/2, and I recalled this one. Some people intrerested this, so I put it on my web page.
Program is released under GPL. Fonts included in this program was derived from X11's bitmap fonts, and they are distributed under X11 license.
Download
Binary Package
Binary package contains AKAN font library (DLL) and japanese text viwer 'akview.exe'.
| akview.exe | Japanese Text Viwewer |
| akanfont.dll | DLL main entry |
| akank14.dll | K14 font |
| akank16.dll | K16 font |
| akank24.dll | K24 font |
| test-euc.txt | Japanese Text in EUC encodiing |
| test-jis.txt | Japanese Text in JIS encoding |
| test-sji.txt | Japanese Text in ShiftJIS encoding |
Source Packages
Becase this is very old program, sources are packed with ZOO archive. In those days, ZOO archiver was official archiver for comp.binaries.os2.
| Font Library | Font Library's main module. |
| 14 dot font | 7x14rf + k14 |
| 16 dot font | 8x16rk, jiskan16 |
| 24 dot font | 12x24rk,jiskan24 |
| Font Conversion | To build font data source. |
| Show Font Glyph | Dumps Kanji Glyph for Specified codes. |
| Listup Kanji | Show all kanjis, |
| Show Kanji Text | Kanji Text Viewer. |
Install
Put four DLLs to some directory in your LIBPATH. Put 'akview.exe' to some directory in your PATH.
Usage
'akview' shows japanese text from file (as argument) or from STDIN.
akview file
cat text | akview
'akview' automatically determine japanese text encodings and show text with appropirate encoding. If something wrong, then change encoding type from menu
Option -> Code -> SJIS, JIS, EUC
You can control 'akview' with following menus.
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Contact
You can contant me at <akira@sra.co.jp> (1), but I never update this program. It is very old program ("About" box says 1993) when I'm using OS/2 V2.0, written using MS-C (really) and 1.X APIs (so it is 16 bit program). But someday, if I have spare time, I'll re-write this one using GCC with 32bit API.
Notes
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In documents and source code, auther's address is akira@sra.co.jp, but after retirement, it become unreachable.Please use current mail address akira@p08.itscom.net.
But after retirement, I don't have OS/2 environment at hand. So I cannot confirm any problems, or no more updates.