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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Japanese fonts? 
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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 22:52:37 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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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