From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 08:04:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA16627 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leinlein.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (leinlein.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp [131.113.32.126]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16611 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hosokawa@localhost) by leinlein.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA00268; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:40:10 GMT Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:40:10 GMT Message-Id: <199607102240.WAA00268@leinlein.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: To Asian FreeBSD hackers: Japanese boot.flp is now available! From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.19] 1995-07/21(Fri) Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! A good news for Asian FreeBSD hackers. We release the alpha-test version of Japanese boot.flp for FreeBSD 2.2-960612-SNAP. It contains all fonts for ASCII character set (128 chars), JIS-0201x-1979 "Kana" character set (128 chars with 8th bit), and JIS-0208-1983 level 1 "Kanji" character set (about 3000 multibyte chars) in only "one 2HD 1.44MB floppy" !! It can display these mutibyte characters on normal PC VGA display without any special localized hardware. Almost all messages of sysinstall have been translated into Japanese, and help files are now translating by FreeBSD user's group in Japan (readme.hlp and usage.hlp has been translated into Japanese). The URL is, ftp://ryukyu.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/pub/alpha-test/jboot/boot.flp I think it is possible to create Chinese boot.flp, Korean (hangul) boot.flp, etc. based on this work. If you're interested in creating your boot.flp in your mother tongue, please e-mail me! We have more free space on 2HD floppy. I know of course that Big-5 font is huge even compared to Japanese font, but I think it's possible to create Chinese boot.flp in one 2HD floppy! -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html