From: "Jeroen J.-W. Tiggelman" <CRMBJTI <at> HDETUD2 <dot> TUDELFT <dot> NL>
Date: 12 jun 1996
Subject: DOS multi-byte support (was Re: NTT Shogi Server!)

> There's no way to display japanese characters under DOS? I know that I can do
> it with cyrillic, may be there's some program to do it with japanese?

Actually, there is. However, I seem to recall that the multi-byte
interrupt call only existed in some (earlier) DOS versions, but not
in the western.. (This is used to control how characters are coded;
with these differing alphabets, some extended ASCII codes indicate
the start of a two-byte code that should be translated using the
appropriate code page.) You don't have to worry about these internals,
of course. ;-)

Jeroen Tiggelman
crmbjti <at> hdetud2 <dot> tudelft <dot> nl