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   Hey August!   
      
    NB> :read !trans -b -no-ansi -t japanese "Strong like bull, smart like   
    NB> tractor."   
    NB> 雄牛のように強く、トラクターのように賢い。   
      
    AA> The japanese one did not render.   
      
   Maybe so but at least your editor didn't grunge them like most 8-bit fido   
   editors do.  I can't render them either given that there is no terminal based   
   fonts for Japanese ... or Chinese for that matter.  With terminal fonts there   
   is a 512 character limit as things stand today.  Far more than is needed for   
   most languages.  To render Japanese a gui app with the right fonts will be   
   needed.  I am not sure if there are any terminals in xorg that can handle CJK   
   fonts but maybe.  I am guessing that Firefox might be a viable alternative.   
      
   I have a status line for vim running in a linux terminal that shows me the   
   unicode when I place the cursor under the character in question.  For example   
   it shows the first charater as U+96C4 which seems reasonable.  I could look   
   them up at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ which does render the actual   
   character in a pdf which is viewable on the linux terminal.  Given that I am   
   left to ponder the possibility of a graphical interface for fidonet if and   
   when this ever becomes a real issue.   
      
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