In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, George Herzog wrote:

Thanks James,
I jumped into my TwinBridge software documentation last night and it is quite a historic survey of Asian Fonts.

Nonetheless, eliminating all that history and generating a graphic file to get an appropriate bitmap is definitely the way to go.
Since I am trying to print on a chopstick, I will never need 255 characters and probably not even 32 characters.

You have also pointed out an obvious pathway for printing ANY graphic material with HP printhead.  So this really begins to open up the HP Printer Contest to more people that are just starting to learn.  [There is an Art Work Prize in one of the 3 catagories.]

As far as the GB, it was originally Simplified; the Big5 was originally Traditional; and Unicode was originally intended to be universal.
They all use 16bits, but have a different data scheme.  TwinBridge created its own fonts [the CJK set] which can only be used by people that have TwinBridge software installed.  There is also another code for just Internet email.

In sum, if you can write Japanese, Korean, Chinese on your system - don't worry about all that.  Just create the graphic file for output.

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