Japanese Partner 6.0 for Windows 2000/XP

Japanese Partner 6.0 for Windows 2000/XP Utilizing a powerful yet intuitive interface, TwinBridge Japanese Partner makes it possible for you to work in the Japanese language under the standard English Windows environment as well as Japanese Windows. Now all your character input can be done through the most popular Japanese input methods without the use of a separate localized version of Windows! You can now write Japanese letters using your everyday Windows word processor, add Japanese columns to your spread-sheet, prepare Japanese flyers for your upcoming events using your desktop publishing program, store Japanese addresses in your Windows database programs! Japanese Partner 6.0  -   Features  -   System Requirements and Pricing

Japanese Partner 6.0

Utilizing a powerful yet intuitive interface, TwinBridge Japanese Partner makes it possible for you to work in the Japanese language under the standard English Windows environment as well as Japanese Windows. Now all your character input can be done through the most popular Japanese input methods without the use of a separate localized version of Windows! The system allows Japanese Kanji, Kana, and Unicode to be entered into all Windows applications. You can now write Japanese letters using your everyday Windows word processor, add Japanese columns to your spread-sheet, prepare Japanese flyers for your upcoming events using your desktop publishing program, store Japanese addresses in your Windows database programs!

TwinBridge Japanese Partner 6.0 also offers a group of unique and powerful utilities: Super Code Converter, Meta Converter, and the Single Byte Converter to fulfill your specific needs.

28 fonts are included for Windows 2000; 8 fonts for Windows NT 4.0.

Main Features

Supports both Unicode and ANSI Applications

Now you can input characters in Unicode mode for Unicode applications! Applications such as Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP Suite, Notepad, and many others are Unicode conformant. An application is Unicode conformant if it processes each character in double bytes and it recognizes fonts that are structured by the Unicode TrueType font definition. Almost all new applications will be Unicode compatible.

Japanese Partner 6.0 supports the Japanese EUC (JIS) and SJIS code standards. Unicode input mode is not available for regular ANSI (Non-Unicode) applications, since they have not been modified to accommodate Unicode. To deal with these cases Japanese Partner has provided a backwards compatibility so that almost all applications can be processed in JIS and SJIS code modes.

Japanese Partner 6.0 provides fonts in both Unicode and non-Unicode formats. The font facename for the non-Unicode begins with "Jpn" - these are suitable for ANSI applications. The Unicode font facename begins with "TSC" - these are used in Unicode applications.

Automatic Selection of Internal Code

The user no longer needs to select the internal code to be used for Japanese input. An input session is started by the user choosing his or her "Language Preference". A button on the Control Center displays the status of EUC (JIS) or SJIS Japanese preferences. Japanese Partner automatically selects the appropriate display and input code mode based on the language preference selection and the current application type. The user may leave the "Input Code Using" feature on by default ("Auto Select").

The user can force the input code of a specific type to differ from the automatic choice offered. The system lists the type of internal codes that are logically available to the user based on the preferences chosen for using the Japanese Language. However, forcing a choice with Unicode is not advisable.

Enhanced Single Cursor Word Processing

• When a character is processed in Unicode mode. Under Unicode standard, all language character sets are defined in double byte so the processing of each Unicode character is by nature "Single Cursor".
• When Japanese Partner is capable of controlling the cursor in non-Unicode mode. For applications that are not Unicode compatible, each Japanese character normally would require double cursor movements. However, we have implemented a special coding scheme which reduces the double cursor requirement to a single cursor. However, not all applications can utilize single cursor processing because some of them employ special formats that do not communicate with external programs such as Japanese Partner.

Software Compatibility

• Works with most natural language versions of Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP.
• Supports all Windows NT functions and applications such as MS Office 97/2000/XP.
• Supports both Unicode and non-Unicode (ANSI) applications.
• Japanese characters documents made by Japanese Partner from various localised versions of MS Office 97 are compatible with each other.
• Supports MIME, and ISO2022 Internet standards.

Fonts

8 Japanese TrueType fonts are included for NT 4.0; 28 fonts are included for Windows 2000.

Utility Programs

Meta Converter
This utility program is designed to facilitate the use of Japanese characters in graphics applications which do not allow double-byte characters to be processed. One selects the characters that are to be used, adjusts the settings as desired in the program, and the program converts them into a Windows Meta File format that is suitable for use by graphics applications.

Single Byte Converter
When Japanese characters cannot be used in a graphics application (such as CorelDraw), the more powerful Single-Byte Converter can be used as an alternative to the Meta Converter to create new single-byte fonts. Basically, a new font thus created can be used on all Windows-based computers - even those without Japanese Partner installed. Each single byte font mimics the properties of an English font and can hold a maximum of 188 characters.

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System Requirements

Pentium CPU and above; Windows 2000/XP and above; 32MB RAM; 50 MB of free hard disk space; and CD-ROM drive.

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