\Header{Japanese}{Japanese characters in R}
\keyword{aplot}{Japanese}
\begin{Description}\relax
The implementation of Hershey vector fonts provides a large number of
Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji).
\end{Description}
\begin{Details}\relax
Without keyboard support for typing Japanese characters, the only way
to produce these characters is to use special escape sequences: see
\code{\Link{Hershey}}.

For example, the Hiragana character for the sound "ka" is produced
by \code{\bsl{}\bsl{}\#J242b} and the Katakana character for this sound is
produced by \code{\bsl{}\bsl{}\#J252b}.  The Kanji ideograph for "one" is
produced by \code{\bsl{}\bsl{}\#J306c} or \code{\bsl{}\bsl{}\#N0001}.

The output from \code{demo(Japanese)} shows tables of the escape
sequences for the available Japanese characters.
\end{Details}
\begin{References}\relax
\url{http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html}
\end{References}
\begin{SeeAlso}\relax
\code{demo(Japanese)},
\code{\Link{Hershey}},
\code{\Link{text}},
\code{\Link{contour}}
\end{SeeAlso}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
plot(1:9, type="n", axes=FALSE, frame=TRUE, ylab="",
     main= "example(Japanese)", xlab= "using Hershey fonts")
par(cex=3)
Vf <- c("serif", "plain")
text(4, 2, "\\#J2438\\#J2421\\#J2451\\#J2473", vfont = Vf)
text(4, 4, "\\#J2538\\#J2521\\#J2551\\#J2573", vfont = Vf)
text(4, 6, "\\#J467c\\#J4b5c", vfont = Vf)
text(4, 8, "Japan", vfont = Vf)
par(cex=1)
text(8, 2, "Hiragana")
text(8, 4, "Katakana")
text(8, 6, "Kanji")
text(8, 8, "English")
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

