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From: masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Masaru Sugai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Help: Japanese font ????
Keywords: Japanese, Kanji
Message-ID: <5672@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 18 Apr 91 14:45:02 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.060136.12818@kcbbs.gen.nz>
Reply-To: masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Masaru Sugai)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1991Apr17.060136.12818@kcbbs.gen.nz> Clarke_Anderson@kcbbs.gen.nz (Clarke Anderson) writes:
>the japanese character set consists of over 2000 characters. i'd hate 
                                             ---- 8000 and much more!
>to be the one to creatre a font for it.

 It is a famous story among Japanese UNIX people that k14 font (14x14 bitmap
Japanese font for X11) is a result of endeavor by a single graduate student. 

He set his work to public domain and you can use it as a graphic data.
I wrote a conversion program which takes on .bnf font file and outputs 
over 80 assembly programs each of which complies with a font source
format found in Amiga Reference Manual. I donwloaded them onto my A3000 
and compiled using SAS assembler. I just played with them to read Japanese
mails home, and it is quite usable if you have hi-res screen and an extra
1 MEG CHIP RAM. 

-- 
-- Masaru Sugai:Use disclaimer. CIS 72050,2141:NeXT + A3000 = money-eater
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MIT R.Affiliate:masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu:  "Silicon on Sapphire" by CLASH