Each character is a 16*16 dot matrix encoded by the 16-bit integer. Old systems (from the beginning of IBM compatibles until early 1990-ish) had hardware accelerators if they wanted to use multiple fonts, IIRC one of the few breakthrough products made by Lenovo.

This was definitely a cool one. If you were wondering, this is a makeup kiosk POS machine in Shenzhen.

I know it means point of sales, but i keep reading it as piece of shit...

Then you will enjoy learning about hardware Chinese character generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_Can...

This one synthesized characters from geometric decomposition (and not a completely artificial one either, but Cangjie which is actually widely used to this day for computer text entry).

The stored data representation exactly matched the input form (perhaps not so surprising to users of ASCII).

Amazing stuff.

It seems Japanese to me. Nice..

Thing is that Japan has 3 systems they use, chinese characters, their own characters, and latin characters. Makes for one heck of a learning curve.

Its Chinese.