IBM history of far Eastern languages in computing. Part 2. Initial efforts for full Kanji solutions, early 1970s

The authors describe the intricacies of character encoding, processing, and printing involved in IBM's successful efforts to develop the first commercial general Kanji computer system. Later during this time frame, the first commercial Kanji system was introduced. IBM was also launching develop...

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Published inIEEE annals of the history of computing Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 27 - 37
Main Authors Hensch, K., Igi, T., Iwao, M., Takeshita
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos, CA IEEE 01.01.2005
IEEE Computer Society
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
20th century
Codes
Computer terminals
Costs
Data Entry
Data processing
Dot Pattern
Double-Byte Encoding
Encoding
Engineering
EXPO70
General history of technology
History
History of science and technology
Japanese language
Kanji
Keyboards
Laboratories
Magnetic tape
Phonetics
Photo Printing
Printers
Printing
Product development
Proposals
Publishing
Sun
Technology
Type fonts
Wire
Century 20
Japan
Langue;Language
Phonetics
Data processing
Impression
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Summary:The authors describe the intricacies of character encoding, processing, and printing involved in IBM's successful efforts to develop the first commercial general Kanji computer system. Later during this time frame, the first commercial Kanji system was introduced. IBM was also launching development of the first computerized newspaper publishing system to offer Kanji capability.
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ISSN:1058-6180
1934-1547
DOI:10.1109/MAHC.2005.10