Subject: Re: Japanese with wscons?
To: Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
From: Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/12/2001 13:36:01
Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> 
> In message <3A5E7DA6.4F5EDFDD@mogua.org>
>         on Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:44:38 +0900,
>         Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org> wrote:
> > Personally I'm writing a graphical wscons driver which can display
> Another implementation exists for NetBSD 1.4.
> 
>         http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~pf5y-inue/world21-beta.html (in Japanese)
> 
> But it dosen't catch up to 1.5 nor current.

I wish I could read Japanese... 

> 
> > languages other than English. It uses UTF-8 encoding, and once it's
> > completed you'll be able to see English, Japanese, Korean, etc. on "one"
> > screen. The first test release will be available shortly (within this
> > week or next).
> Hmmmmm.  But many imput methods for Japanese dosen't support UTF-8 but
> ISO-2022-JP, EUC-JP or Shift_JIS.  :-(

They should be provided separately, anyway. IMHO, ISO-2022-JP/KR, EUC-JP/KR, 
and etc. are not for _universal_ operating system. 

> > For testing I need a Japanese font in raw bitmap format (16x16). Could
> > you tell me where I can get such one?
> You could get from xsrc/xc/fonts/bdf/misc/jiskan16.bdf with converting
> from BDF format.

Thanks but I don't know how to convert it to raw font.

Jun-Young

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