Re: [NTLK] First post - hi!!

From: Mike Hamende (mhamende_at_tsl.state.tx.us)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 14:07:26 EST


Talk very nice to Tracey and be willing to pay a lot of postage, and you =
might=20
get lucky.

On Friday 24 January 2003 12:29 pm, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:19:27PM +0900, Tracey Northcott wrote:
> > BTW Enfour was/is the Japanese distributor for Newton in Japan. We
> > developed alot of software over the years including UniFEP - a Japane=
se
> > language kit for Newton and this allowed us to enjoy alot of success =
for
> > the life of the Newton. We have moved into slightly different areas n=
ow
> > such as developing for Symbian OS and other mobile devices and now in
> > many more languages.
>
> Here's a question: Any chance in Hades of ever getting NLK and Japanese
> entry methods with even the limited support of a basic English
> translation outside of Japan again? I realize the support logistics are
> nightmarish to do it right for the rest of the world, but I've just
> gotten the second request from someone for PDA recommendations that can
> handle Japanese, and I've only been able to say "Well, wait until you
> get to Osaka again, and buy one there" instead of being able to say "Go
> get a Newton 2100 from ebay or someplace, and send Y20,000 to this plac=
e
> and you'll get a CD with the stuff to make your Newton handle Japanese,
> and you can use it everywhere then."

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