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Subject: Re: Japanese syscons font? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 95 02:41:58 PST."
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:47:35 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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The all-singing all-dancing multilingual installation might not actually
appear anywhere but the CDROM (if it can find the font info, it presents
the appropriate localization screen(s)).

					Jordan

>  * Well, this is for sysinstall.  If it's possible to bring those dialogs
>  * up in Japanese, we should do so!  I've asked Barry to restart the little
>  * XPG3 message catalog project he had going..  I'm not sure if they're
>  * sufficient for non-european languages, but it's a start.  The Japanese
>  * version can always be done seperately.
> 
> Oh, sysinstall?  That'd be nice, I'll let you know if I find anything.
> But do we still have enough room on the floppies for the driver and
> the font?  The fonts are huge, like k14.pcf.Z (the smallest possible
> font) is 264KB....
> 
> Satoshi
> 
> P.S. Well of course we can make it smaller by dropping unused letters....