http://www.personal-media.co.jp/welcome-e.html
Welcome to Personal Media Corporation's (PMC) home page.
PMC develops and markets package software, imports and localizes overseas software products, edits and publishes books on computers and on general topics. One of PMC's focus these days is to commercialize the results of the TRON Project.
Such commercial offerings include Cho-Kanji, a BTRON-specification OSs that run on PC, I-right/S, an implementation of ITRON-specification OS for microSparc II CPU from Sun Microsystems, J-right/V, an implementation of JTRON-specification realtime Java environment, and Disk Shredder, a hard disk eraser software.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Cho-Kanji 3 (Super Kanji 3): B-right/V3 Operating System Cho-kanji is a brand-new OS which runs on various models of IBM PC. The features of Cho-kanji is based on the feedback from many users of the previous generations of BTRON-specifications OS, and the desire of the customers who want to use many characters of the world on their computer. As the name suggests, Cho-Kanji handles many Kanjis in use today as well as the characters of the various languages of the world.
Without resorting user-defined characters, Cho-kanji 3 supports most of the characters of the world which have been available on printing machines as moveable type. They are as follows: JIS 1st level, and 2nd level (JIS X 0208), JIS auxiliary character support (JIS X 0212), JIS third/fourth level additions (JIS X 0213 announced in January, 2000.)
Cho-kanji 3 also includes Chinese characters used in Korean language (Hanja) and Hangul (KS X1001), Chinese simplified character set (GB 2312), traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan and Hong Kong (CNS 11643), 6 points braille characters, 8 points braille characters, 50000 characters from the largest Kanji dictionary in Japan (Dai-Kanwa).
Kanjis not found in the Dai-Kanwa are also included: characters included in Unicode such as Latin characters, Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Malayalam Georgian (in the Caucasus), Telugu, Kannada and others.
Cho-kanji 3, also, supports GT kanji set(apx. 68,000 characters) born from the project at the University of Tokyo sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The latest and exhaustive study about Kanji reflects this large kanji set.
In total, there are approximately 170,000 characters supported on Cho-Kanji 3 and they can be used inside the application as well as the name of data files (so called objects in BTRON-specification OS).
There are support for input method for Korean Hangul, Pinyin input method for Chinese language as well as European character input method for German, French, Spanish and other European languages. These input method software helps the user in making documents in which these characters are mixed freely.
Cho-kanji 3 supports a vertical writing editor with ruby function for the Japanese language. Users can now display and edit Japanese documents using the vertical column writing style.
Cho-Kanji 3 runs on IBM PC equipped with 486DX and more powerful CPU, at least 16MB memory, and 100MB free space on an IDE disk (when the multi-language character sets are not used). If multi-language character sets are used, the font files require larger disk space.
The desktop of Cho-kanji 3 is an integrated software environment in which the user has access to the character search utility to look for the various characters of the world as well as to software components of the system such as word processing (basic document editor), graphics (basic 2D graphics editor), communication (basic communication), spreadsheet (basic spreadsheet), card-like database (microCard), WWW browser (basic browser), Internet mail (basic mailer), and visual scripting language (microScript).
Cho-Kanji 3 has a built-in dialup PPP connection facility and so the user can enjoy netsurfing after connecting to ISP service.
Cho-Kanji 3 comes with a partition splitter("System Selector") of the IBM PC hard disk. Using this, the user can prepare an independent partition into which Cho-Kanji3 is installed to make the user's PC a multi-OS boot machine. There is a utility to convert the document and graphics prepared on Cho-Kanji 3 into the data format used on other OS. Conversely, Cho-Kanji 3 can read the data in plain text files, and BMP/JPEG/PNG graphics files.
People who have had difficulty in handling non-JIS characters used in people's names and place names will find Cho-Kanji 3 very attractive. People at town offices, banks, libraries, and businesses, researchers in humanities, professional writers as well as people wishing to write correct characters for their own names or friend's names on computers will be pleased with the capability of Cho-Kanji 3.
Visit www.chokanji.com
(Japanese).
You might find it easier to just send an e-mail to webmasters at personal-media.co.jp.
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They also market 'shredder' software that includes an English version. You might be able to get English support from personal media for the B-TRON OS, but i'm not sure. they might be so pleasantly surprised that there is any overseas interest at all that might help you. i'm just loading a japanese version. If you need to do editing and desktop publishing in E. Asian languages (or at least compatibility with these languages), this is the ultimate and certainly better thought out than anything MS or Linux has.
Charles Jannuzi