Japanese Input Method Editor for DOS

JAINPUT.COM is a TSR for DOS, that provides Japanese-language Input Method Editor (IME) with only 8-bit character set, supporting hiragana.

It uses a custom character set, not compatible with any standard encodings, targeted for the visual appearance only, ideal for making text-mode DOS videos that feature Japanese text. The font has been optimized to contain the left-side halfs of most of the most-common syllables in the C0-DF region so as to avoid the vertical empty stripe in the middle of the syllable when the font is displayed in 9 pixel columns rather than 8. Unfortunately, that's where most of the line drawing characters must be placed too...

JAINPUT is compatible with practically all text-mode applications that are 8-bit clean and that use the standard 80x25 text mode with 8x16 font. It is not compatible with 80x50 or 80x43 modes.

JAINPUT has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a. Bisqwit,
and is distributed under the terms of the zlib license, summarized: as-is, for-any-purpose, do-not-mispresent, compatible-with-gpl

The official home page of jainput is at http://iki.fi/bisqwit/source/jainput.html.
Check there for new versions.

Additionally, the most recent source code (bleeding edge) for jainput can also be downloaded by cloning the Git repository by:

• git clone git://bisqwit.iki.fi/jainput.git
• git checkout origin/release -b release
• git checkout origin/master -b master