From: Patrick Davin <patrick <at> LYRA <dot> VEGA <dot> OR <dot> JP>
Date: 30 may 1997
Subject: Re: Japanese servers

>When I first started looking for Shogi on-line, I found that half the good
>sites were in Japanese. Although my Japanese is poor at best, I still feel I
>could muddle through. My problem is that my computer just displays a bunch of
>nonsense characters, since it doesn't have the capability to display Japanese
>characters. Does anyone know how I can gain that capability?
>
>Bryan C Warren

If you're a Macintosh user, get the Japanese Language Kit from Apple.
It includes Japanese fonts and enables 2-byte characters as the
system level.  It will work with Netscape, Explorer and almost
any other application.