Thanks, I tried it without success. I have now taken a look into the gmapsupp.map file and I think the reason is actually in the firmware, but not the font but the character encoding. My guess is that the units that are sold in Europe are UTF8 based, while the Units that support Japanese are ShiftJIS based. Now, if my unit tries to read the ShiftJIS encoded name of a waypoint, it decodes only rubbish, and thus nothing is displayed.

Just a wild guess ... also because I know there are maps on sale (but I don't have them) that supposedly work on both Japanese and non-Japanese units.

Anyway, thanks for your patience and help!

Norbert