Short: A Screenshot of a WB using the included Japanese font. Author: Chris Covell (ccovell@direct.ca) Uploader: Chris Covell (ccovell direct ca) Type: pix/wb Architecture: generic Here is a GIF of my Workbench using a Japanese Katakana font which I made. The font, Japanese.font, is included with this archive. It tries to approximate the normal operation of a font, even though the Katakana system works rather differently from the normal Roman alphabet. In Katakana, entire syllables are represented by one character. So, for example, there is no letter `R' in the alphabet. But there are `RA', `RI', `RU', `RE', and `RO'. But how to map that onto the Roman keyboard? I thought of using a good combination of shift, alt, and control keys to make the different combinations of consonants and vowels. The numbers are represented by the Kanji (Chinese characters) of the respective number. 1 is "ichi", and 0 is "juu", so 0 is the character for 10. AFAIK, there is no Kanji representation of the number 0 by itself. Other symbols, like the hyphen, comma, period, quotation marks, etc, are represented by their Japanese equivalents. The @ symbol I made into the Hiragana "NO" character, just because it could be useful, and because they look similar anyway. So, for the font, pressing `r' makes the `RA' character; Shift-r makes `RI'; Alt-r, `RU'; Ctrl-r, `RE'; and Ctrl-Alt-r, `RO'. Problems arise in that the middle row of keys (f,g,h,j,k) are special control keys, and don't work with Alt. Not to mention that all those commodities have hotkeys like alt-b, alt-s, and alt-n, etc. Oh, well, it was worth a try. It's still fun to look at, though, huh? Enjoy! Be sure to look on my WebPage for the other projects that I've put on AmiNet. Chris Covell ccovell@direct.ca http://www.dsoe.com/zyx/covell/ "The memories of one lifetime take five to write about."