How to display Japanese characters under MS-DOS - China DOS Union Forum

Directly using the Japanese package for FREE DOS is the simplest solution. The limitation seems to be that for now it can only support SHIFT-JIS.
The advantage is that it can fit on a single floppy disk.

Using MS-DOS/V5。0 is also a solution. But installation is too troublesome, one disk is not enough.

There is also a package called JAPANDOS。EXE, but I haven't used it before. After unpacking it, there doesn't seem to be any documentation file either.

Lastly, what I think is the best solution (although it doesn't quite meet your requirements) is WIN3。1+RICHWIN
test version (it expired in 1996; changing the system date solves it)

If your machine is good enough (nonsense, if it's good enough then wouldn't installing WIN98 solve it), you can also search for
a DOS/V emulator, which can also be used to display Japanese.

All of these can be found with a Baidu search. On the FREE DOS website, click JAPAN MIRRO and you can slowly look around.
If there haven't been any updates within 1 year, the installation package is only a bit over 800K. It doesn't support EUC; of course, after a year I'm not too sure either.

Floor1　utada	Posted 2003-07-31 00:00
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Under English MS-DOS, you can use a 16*16 dot-matrix Chinese font library to display Chinese characters. So how do you display Japanese, thanks.

Floor2　lemonhall	Posted 2003-08-04 00:00
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Directly using the Japanese package for FREE DOS is the simplest solution. The limitation seems to be that for now it can only support SHIFT-JIS. The advantage is that it can fit on a single floppy disk. Using MS-DOS/V5。0 is also a solution. But installation is too troublesome, one disk is not enough. There is also a package called JAPANDOS。EXE, but I haven't used it before. After unpacking it, there doesn't seem to be any documentation file either. Lastly, what I think is the best solution (although it doesn't quite meet your requirements) is WIN3。1+RICHWIN test version (it expired in 1996; changing the system date solves it) If your machine is good enough (nonsense, if it's good enough then wouldn't installing WIN98 solve it), you can also search for a DOS/V emulator, which can also be used to display Japanese. All of these can be found with a Baidu search. On the FREE DOS website, click JAPAN MIRRO and you can slowly look around. If there haven't been any updates within 1 year, the installation package is only a bit over 800K. It doesn't support EUC; of course, after a year I'm not too sure either.

Floor3　Dark-Destroy	Posted 2003-08-04 00:00
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Heh... that lady above said it really well~