Hello, Rik-san.
How about Braille? 8-)
Let me consider this seriously:-) 2x3 pixels... or 7x5 with internal spaces for one character? It could be a candidate for PDAs. One problem is that the interpretation of the dots varies country to the country. And other is that a number have to have a "prefix" character which denotes "the following is a number". So one to one mapping from ASCII to Braille doesn't work.
Defining new representation which has more than 2x3 dots won't work because the size could be bigger than usual fonts!
I hope you don't plan to do kanji in 5 or 7 pixels? 8-( (It is hard enouyh for me to read kanji even when the font is very good)
The smallest kanji font on Zaurus is 8x8. It is readable at least. If anti-aliases fonts are available, I think 7 pixel kanji font could be usable.
Squeak as a multilingual is another story. Allcating another tag bit for the instances of Character, and reconstructing whole system may be required.
OHSHIMA Yoshiki Dept. of Mathematical and Computing Sciences Tokyo Institute of Technology
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