Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 22:52:37 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Japanese fonts? Message-ID: <4559.804923557@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jul 95 23:25:22 MDT." <9507050525.AA07944@cs.weber.edu>
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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. Hmmmm. An interesting idea and, if Soren ever gives me that `vgalib' interface to syscons, one I may well investigate! It still wouldn't do it for the menus, however, since those need to use the message catalogs. Sounds like the 8 bit emasculated Japanese is still better than romaji though, especially as the menus are likely to express simpler concepts anyway. Jordan
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