RE: tlug: shiver me timbers - Japanese!

[Thomas Bätzler <tbaetzle@example.com>]

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>tlug note from Jason Molenda <crash@example.com>

>On win32 platforms, I have heard that MS actually includes Japanese
>fonts with Internet Explorer so that you can look at Japanese web pages
>w/o necessarily running a Japanese version of the OS.  (I assume you
>have to get a Japanese version of the browser for this font to be
>included).

>From personal experience that's not the case. You have to get a language
support pack (ie3lpkja.exe on ftp.microsoft.com) to enable your non-jp
Explorer 3 to display japanese (or so I'm told :-)). Needless to say,
this
only works on Win95 :-(

Ciao,
Thomas
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