From owner-freebsd-i18n Thu Oct 19 12:36:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from misato.mk.bsdclub.org (termroom.bsdcon.org [206.55.247.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7EFD37B479; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misato.mk.bsdclub.org (localhost.mk.bsdclub.org [127.0.0.1]) by misato.mk.bsdclub.org (8.11.1/3.7W) with ESMTP id e9JHljY09298; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:47:45 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200010191747.e9JHljY09298@misato.mk.bsdclub.org> To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: i18n@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals From: Motoyuki Konno X-Mailer: mh-e on Mule 2.3 / Emacs 19.34.1 References: <20001019033252.A31416@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:47:45 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, "Michael C . Wu" wrote: > 1. The future of sysinstall (or whatever should replace it) > The future installer/management utility should be > able to handle arbitrary character sets. > In other words, it should be able to display Chinese/Japanese/etc. > with user selection. To be discussed. There is a difficulty in multilingual install floppy: size limitation that comes from floppy disk size (1.44M). The font file of Chinese, Japanese, Korean are very big. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Motoyuki Konno motoyuki@bsdclub.org (Home) motoyuki@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Project) http://www.freebsd.org/~motoyuki/ (WWW) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message