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<html><head>
<title>MS-DOS Kermit Kanji Screens</title>
</head><body><h1>MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 Kanji Screens</h1>
<blockquote>
by Dr. Hirofumi Fujii<br>
KEK: Japan National Laboratory for High Energy Physics<br>
Tokyo
</blockquote>
<p>
Here are some pictures to help illustrate the Japanese key input method. I
made screen-capture files in GIF format by using Japanese MS-Windows (note
that MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 works even in Japanese MS-Windows because the screen
control is the same as DOS J/V).
<p>
The first picture shows the screen of MS-DOS Kermit in Japanese mode with its
status line off (SET MODE-LINE OFF). At the bottom of screen, you can see the
status for Japanese input. In this picture, the status says that key-input is
in Roman (alphabetic) mode, in which the system simply sends the key-code to
the application.
<p>
<hr>
<p>
<img alt="" src="kanji1.gif">
<p>
<hr>
<p>
When we want to enter Kanji from the keyboard, we begin by pressing a special
key combination (Alt + something depending on keyboard type). Then the system
changes the key-input method.
<p>
In Kanji key-input mode, the system traps the key-input stream and it is
interpreted as the phonetic representation of Kanji. At the end of the
phonetic representation, we press some other special key combination (Alt +
somekey). Then the system shows the Kanji character which has the given
representation. If it is correct, we press the confirm key (normally Enter)
and then the system sends the Kanji code to the application.
<p>
However there are usually many Kanji candidates for the given phonetic
representation. In this case, the system shows the candidates on the bottom
line, and if there are more, PageUp/PageDown keys can be used to see another
set of candidates. In the second picture, you can see the system shows eight
candidates for the given representation (I pressed 'kan<Translate>' in this
case). The selected character is Number 3 which is seen in the screen area;
not confirmed yet, so the character attribute is reversed.
<p>
<hr>
<p>
<img alt="" src="kanji2.gif">
<p>
<hr>
<p>
So you can see the bottom line has an important role for Japanese input.
The basic Japanese screen mode is 80 x 25 characters, and VT
emulation requires 24 lines at least. This means we have to decide
the role of the 25th line: as Kermit mode-line or as Kanji input line.
So, in Japanese mode:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
SET MODE-LINE OFF
</BLOCKQUOTE>
means not only "do not show Kermit status" but also "use bottom line as Kanji
input line".
<p>
<ADDRESS>
MS-DOS Kermit Kanji Screens / Columbia University / kermit@columbia.edu
</ADDRESS>
</body>
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