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From: Cen Huang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:42:39 CDT

>In cclib.16, each character font takes up 32 bytes.
>    16 x 16 character fonts are each designed on a
>    16 x 16 grid
>    This grid system has 16 x 16 "pixels" which
>    can each be either on or off
>    "On" pixels are indicated by 1
>    "Off" pixels are indicated by 0
>    So each byte can represent 8 pixels
>    (16 x 16) div 8 = 32
>Regards,
>Tom Lai, Hong Kong
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Hi! Mr. Tom Lai,

    Thank you for your correcting my mistakes.

    There are many English bitmap fonts available. As we know that, most
of them contain a tag segment in the front:

    |***** ... ******|**** ... ****|**** ...
    ^<---- tag -----> <-- 1st  ---> <-- 2nd
    |                   letter or
  Beginning             character
  of the
  file.

This tag is an information tag, which describes a complete info. abort
characters in the file. For example, size, structure, style, and so
non. However, it seems that Chinese fonts are bare bitmap font files,
that is, no tag in the file (?). If this is true, is it necessary to
establish a standard of Chinese tag in Chinese font files, which
make Chinese fonts "compatible with" English fonts, i.e. readable by
non Chinese programs, or make it easy for Chinese computing ?

    My further question is that, what is relationship between GB or
BIG5 and Chinese font files ? In another word, what is the meaning
of the code like A1A1 (GB first code) or A140 (BIG5 first code)? Does
these codes mean something for Chinese font files ?

Thanks for any answers, including answers to my previous email !

D. Chu