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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Jul 1998.
Re: International Figlet Fonts

Re: International Figlet Fonts

In article <900...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite
<cfb...@southern.co.nz> wrote:

[snip]

> The real culprit is the 3677Kb ( 3.68Mb ) file "cjkfonts.tar.gz"
> which unpacks to some gigantic Chinese and Japanese Fonts and
> Characters listed below:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This is the CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) package for FIGlet 2.2.
> 
> The following fonts are provided:
>                                                             Size
>                                                            (Bytes)
> 
> gb16fs - Chinese fang song ti font                         2,466,136
>         Converted from X font: uses 16 x 16 characters
>         GB2312 encoding   2466136 Bytes
> gb16st - Chinese song ti font                              2,466,123
>         Converted from X font: uses 16 x 16 characters
>         GB2312 encoding
> jiskan16 - Japanese font                                   2,739,080
>         Converted from X font: uses 16 x 16 characters
>         JIS 0208X 1983 encoding
> hanglg16 - Korean Gothic font                              2,650,113
>         Converted from X font: uses 16 x 16 characters
>         KSC5601 encoding
> kanglm16 - Korean Mincho font                              2,650,113
>         Converted from X font: uses 16 x 16 characters
>         KSC5601 encoding
> cns - Traditional Chinese font                            23,815,528
>         Converted from X font: uses 40 x 40 characters
>         CNS encoding, with 0x010000 added to plane 1
>                 and 0x020000 added to plane 2 characters
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Now...how would llizard...or anyone...like to make a Figfont with
> 24 million bytes?  The mind boggles.
.

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     |_____|   / \/ >   /__\   |  | |  __  |__|   |
       --- ==      >   /    \  |  | |    | |  |   |
     [_____]    __>,^ /      \ \__/  \__/  |  |   .
  ejm |   |    //| |


No thanks. Maybe some other day.

        ___ 
      _/   |   \_,^%---
     |_____|     <\ \ My figletizing days are over for now...
       ---  ==   >/
     [_____]   __>,^        ...way too much work!
  ejm |   |   //| |

Besides, I have enough trouble with the English alphabet. I don't think
I should go meddling in scripts of languages I have no knowledge of!


NOTE: I do not pick up my mail from the idirect address that you
see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e"
to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/   ha ---%^^^^^^^^^^
ASCII-ar+, ASCII and gif anima+ions            ha  /   "    "

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Subject: Re: International Figlet Fonts
Date: 1998/07/12
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