> > Syllable means just letters and JIS means Japanese characters (hiragana or
> > even kanji, probably).
>
> Syllable is not just letters, but special groups ("lettergrepen" in Dutch).
> For example, "syllable" itself contains syllables "syl", "la" and "ble".
I know that. So in this context it means you can type letters (forming
syllables of Japanese sounds in roman characters).
> JIS is "Japanese International Standard", it encodes the latin alphabet,
> kanas and kanji.
Yup.
> What I meant, is that I don't know what MSX hardware function this bit
> controls.
Can't help you with that...
Grtjs, Manuel
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