Date: Tue, 4 Jul 95 23:25:22 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Japanese fonts? Message-ID: <9507050525.AA07944@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <2279.804917759@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 4, 95 09:15:59 pm
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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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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