> I ask only because it came up here before and I can find nothing online about > it... > > I'm trying to do some things in japanese on my OSX box, unfortuanately my > japanese isn't terribly good so any help info on my computer is minimally > helpful. My biggest question is how to get garbled text like > deg.TMGDBdeg.$D9$BBdeg.$D9deg.$E9deg.$D9-$DA$F5 back into the form of > kanji/kana. My next question is where there's a good online FAQ site for doing > japanese on OSX or finding OSX programs that accept Japenese (unicode?).
I couldn't even guess where to tell you to start, except for google. (Google is a great tool.) The text there looks kind of like it might be some ASCII visible encoding of euc-JIS, but I am not going to take time to test the hypothesis. Where did you get it? If it's from a web browser, you can try selecting a different encoding. (OmniWeb 4.1 requires you change the default in preferences and then re-load the page.) I'm thinking there are good tools to work with that kind of text in Perl 5.8 (also the jcode module in previous versions), but there are people around here better qualified than I to tell you how. There were some good pages mentioned here several months ago, so you might search the archives. Or search the web for things like "CJK", "euc encoding", "shift-JIS", "tron characters", etc. -- Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
