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Hi:

I was just looking at the files for dealing with Chinese in ConTeXt.  How
difficult would it be to handle Japanese?  As I understand it, the standard
Japanese encoding (jis) is 7-bit.  Another plus is that Japanese is now
frequently written horizontally, left to right (except in newspapers and
novels).  What would need to be done to get basic functionality?