Hi, depends! First, you need a Japanese font. You can use a Unicode font. Then, you will likely have to convert that from TTF to some bitmap or otherwise simple file format, as TTF rendering engines would make your C program complex. Next, you should use a 32bit compiler like DJGPP (GNU C), as I assume that your font will take a lot of RAM. Finally, you can use that font in your program :-). You can parse UTF 8 strings to get the 16bit character numbers of each letter in the string. The rest should be quite straightforward. Of course your program will have to use graphics mode. Text mode uses hardware font rendering which supports only fonts up to 512 characters size.
There might be some driver type programs which do the rendering for you, with some interface into which you can feed UTF 8 encoded text or raw 16bit character numbers. Then you would not have to do the graphics mode work and you would not have keep the font in the RAM of your main program yourself. Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
