From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 21 May 91 22:24:27 GMT

Answer to a email-question as to the coding structure of the
ET-fontfiles: Here the informations for the files with
version 2.0:
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Fontname   bytes  lines  char  extent (QU / WEI)   Contents
            per    per   no    in BIG-5 coding
           line   charac       begin      end
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ASCFONT.24   2     24    256                       IBM 8-bit-ASCII
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SPCFONT.24   3     24    407   01/001   03/094     Standard BIG-5 (non
                                                   Chinese in BIG-5)
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SPCFSUPP.24  3     24    365   38/064   40/114     ET-supplement to BIG-5
                                                   (Japanese Russian etc)
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STDFONT.24   3     24   5401   04/001   38/063     frequent BIG-5 characters
                        7651   41/001   89/115     less frequent BIG-5 char.
                          42   89/116   89/157     ET-suppl. to BIG-5
                                                   (8 Hanzi, rest graphics)
          (Total:      13094)
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Notice:           The BIG-5 code occupies the QUs from 1 to 89 (94 would
                  be possible acording to the coding structure.)
                  Each QU contains 157 Positions (WEIs) or each QU is
                  an array of 157 elements.
Important notice: In the STDFONT.24 the less frequent character follow
                  closely the frequent ones, though in the coding scheme
                  in BIG-5 there is a "hole". This "hole" is (partly)
                  filled by the SPCFSUPP.24-font, which contains useful
                  characters, which are not contained in standard BIG-5
                  as Japanese Hiragana and Katakana and some other stuff
                  which is contained in the Qu 1-10 of GB 2312.

I hope somebody will construct the font conversion program with the above
information.

Have fun ;-)
Urs in Bremen