Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ducall.UUCP!don From: don@ducall.UUCP ("Donald C. Mullen") Newsgroups: mod.computers.apollo Subject: Submission for mod-computers-apollo Message-ID: <8612130844.AA00714@yale-eli.YALE.ARPA> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 15:57:59 EST Article-I.D.: yale-eli.8612130844.AA00714 Posted: Fri Dec 12 15:57:59 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 21:38:24 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 Approved: apollo@yale-comix.arpa Path: ducall!don From: don@ducall.UUCP (Donald C. Mullen) Newsgroups: mod.computers.apollo Subject: Two-byte character discriptors Message-ID: <245@ducall.UUCP> Date: 12 Dec 86 20:57:56 GMT Reply-To: don@ducall.UUCP (Donald C. Mullen) Distribution: usa Organization: Humanities Computing Facility, Duke University Lines: 12 Keywords: foreign characters I'm interested in getting the Apollo DN3000 to use various foreign character sets. Edfont, as is, only supports something like 96 characters per font. Does anyone have any experience in getting font files to contain greater that 128 characters. We'd eventually like to be able to do Chinese, Japanese, and other character sets which are very large. I've heard rumors of some way to get the Apollo to use two-byte character discriptors, but don't know if any of it is true. Can someone help me out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Mullen UUCP: mcnc!ethos!ducall!don Humanities Computing, Duke University 104 Languages Bldg, Durham NC 27706 (919) 684-3637