jwb@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) (03/23/91)
Archive-name: text/japan/jis-c/1991-03-20 Archive: ucdavis.ucdavis.edu:/pub/JIS/C/jis.c [128.120.2.1] Original-posting-by: jwb@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) Original-subject: Re: Japanese Multibyte Fonts Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991Mar19.232245.29639@oracle.com>, dvanderr@oracle.com (Danny Vanderryn) writes: > does anyone out there know anything about how japanese fonts are > organized? i was looking at the Kanji16 font using xfd on my > Japanese OpenWindows sun, and i noticed that the hiragana, > which in EUC start at 0xa4a0 start at 0x01a0, and the > kanji which usually start at 0xb0a1 start at 0x0620. > > is there a standard conversion available? also, does anyone > have any english documentation on Wnn, or better yet, is there > something else available for input conversion? > Get a copy of Ken Lunde's 'jis.c' program and the differences between EUC, 7 & 8 bit JIS, etc. will be made clear in quite readable ANSI C. To get the mappings into the K16 fonts, get the source of KD (kanji driver) by Izumi Ouzawa. I got my copy by FTP from tokyo-u at 133.11.11.11, but I daresay there are plenty of other sites have it. Look for 'kd100'. -- Jim Breen AARNet:jwb@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 (fax) +61 3 573 2745 JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J