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 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.

Contents

Binary package contains AKAN font library (DLL) and japanese text
viewer 'akview.exe'.

 akview.exe      Japanese Text Viwer
 akanfont.dll    DLL main entry
 akank14.dll     K14 font
 akank16.dll     K16 font
 akank24.dll     K24 font
 test-euc.txt    Japanese Text in EUC encoding
 test-jis.txt    Japanese Text in JIS encoding
 test-sji.txt    Japanese Text in ShiftJIS encoding

Install

Put four DLLs to some directory in your LIBPATH.
Put 'akview.exe' to some directory in your PATH.

Usage

'akview' show 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

Menu

File
Open        read another file
about       about message
Exit        exit program
Edit
Copy        not implemented
Search      search for text
Goto        goto line

Option
Font        change font, K14, K16, K24
Code        change text encodings, SJIS, JIS, EUC
TabSet      change tab width

Notes

It is a 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 still works on Warp3/Warp4.  It will also works on
OS/2 V1.X, but I'm not sure.

I  never maintain this code (mainly because no MS-C now).  But
somebody interested this code, sources are also avaiable.  I release
this under GPL.

Fonts used in this program was derived from X11's K14, K16, K24
fonts.  They are distributed under X11 license.

Contanct

You can contant me at <akira@sra.co.jp>, but I never update this
program.  But someday, if I have spare time, I'll  re-write this one
using GCC with 32bit API.
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