On Tue, Oct 03, 2006, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > TOIlet is a free FIGlet clone. It creates large characters out of ordinary > > screen characters in a way reminiscent of Usenet and ANSI signatures. > > . > > TOIlet has support for FIGlet ASCII fonts, but can use the full Unicode > > character set, colourize its output, and output in various formats such > > as IRC colour codes. > > I was a bit interested into this: can it also reproduce Japanese text > etc.?
It has UTF-8 input, so all it needs is a font with the appropriate glyphs. I found at least one: figlet's banner.flf has the katakana set (but no hiragana or kanjis): % toilet -d /usr/share/figlet -f banner コンニチハ # ## ########## # # ###### # # # ###### # # # # # ########## # # # ## # # # # ## ########## # # ######### ## ## It's not a very nice font but maybe I could get help from Japanese Unicode artists to draw a font. If saw some pretty talented people on the iichan message boards (though they seem to rather use the Mona font and not a fixed-width font). Regards, -- Sam.