On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:03:10 +0000, Dale Walker <dale@sorted.org>
wrote:

>There's also a little utility called applocale
>http://ftp.pu.edu.tw/cpatch/msupdate/applocale/apploc.msi
>which is a Microsoft utility that allows you to use a different system
>font within any current setup meaning you can run Japanese apps, with
>Japanese menus, dialog boxes and everything within any other setup.
>It's not perfect but for someone like me that only has a couple of
>apps that need the full Japanese system font, it allows me to do
>everything as the same login user using the western system font (with
>lovely backslashes instead of yen signs).

Thank you VERY much for this tip!! I have been SO sick of the
backslash and also the degree symbol for temperature always showing up
as a C or not at all. This is just what the doctor ordered.

>I was hoping I could finally type Japanese directly into Forte Agent
>Newsreader but alas, Agent 1.93 is still broken in that respect. I'm
>on a 30 day trial of Agent 2.0 at the moment which comes tantalizingly
>close but hangs when trying to exit Agent :(
>Either Agent 2.0 is at fault or Applocale, I'm not sure. Either way,
>until it's fixed, it's still too much effort for me to be bothered to
>write anything in Japanese to a Usenet newsgroup. Haven't tried Agent
>2.0 with a Japanese system font yet. Will do so, after I've finished
>converting my home movies of my recent holiday from avi to mpg so that
>I can view it on my DVD player.

日本語入力テスト。I am using Applocale with Agent 2.0. Let's see if it
hangs when I try to exit.

Thanks again!

Raj