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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Japanese fonts?
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 95 23:25:22 MDT
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> 
> I'd like to have the japanese fonts show up correctly in syscons, just
> as Cyrillic (Russian) text shows up now.  This would allow us to stop
> imposing the hard-to-read "romaji" japanese text on our poor Japanese
> readers.  Am I just dreaming?  Can anyone suggest any ways of bringing
> this goal closer to fruition?

The easiest way is to use a gif or jpg instead of text.

consider: 14x14x20,000 = 3920000 bits = 490000 bytes = 479k.

Note that such a font would not load into the video cards font memory,
since it's maxed out at 512 characters.

You could do a Katakana/Hirugana (Kana) font (phonetic Japanese/foreign)
in 46 characters each (ie: it'd fit in a standard ASCII map).

Of course, then it would read like a childs book.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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