Syslinux - Sep 2006 - Icon or CJK fonts in MENU TITLE, is that possible in the future ?

First I would like to say thank you to HPA for providing some really nice
features in recently syslinux version.
About new functions, actually I have another radical idea, since we are in Asia,
most of the users here they would like to see some local fonts for the
syslinux/pxelinux menu. I am wondering is that possible, in the future, the
syslinux/pxelinux menu can support CJK fonts or icon ?
This will be a very friendly feature for those people their mother tongue is not
English.
If it's too radical, just ignore that.
Thanks in advance.

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Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org>
National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw
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steven at nchc.org.tw wrote:
> First I would like to say thank you to HPA for providing some really nice
features in recently syslinux version.
> About new functions, actually I have another radical idea, since we are in
Asia, most of the users here they would like to see some local fonts for the
syslinux/pxelinux menu. I am wondering is that possible, in the future, the
syslinux/pxelinux menu can support CJK fonts or icon ?
> This will be a very friendly feature for those people their mother tongue
is not English.
> If it's too radical, just ignore that.
> Thanks in advance.
Supporting the kind of large fonts needed for CJK is quite difficult in 
a restricted environment without memory management like com32 (I'm not 
saying it's impossible, though.)  However, if all you're concerned about
is MENU TITLE, you could simulate it by just leaving the title blank and 
having your text be part of the background image in the appropriate spot.

	-hpa

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Yes, I think 16x16 pixels is acceptable.
Thanks.

Steven.

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Steven Shiau wrote:
>> Ha, I know this is really a crazy idea. please ignore that.
>
> How big are CJK fonts?  Is 16x16 pixels for a (doublewidth)
> character acceptable?
>
> -hpa
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Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org>
National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan.
http://www.nchc.org.tw
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Steven wrote:
> 
> Yes, I think 16x16 pixels is acceptable.
> Thanks.
> 
OK, this might very well be doable without too much trouble, at least as 
a special version (probably will be a utfmenu.c32).

	-hpa