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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Japanese syscons font?
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 11:34:05 MST
Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=),
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> > X + mule/kterm for me, as I don't use the console except for logging
> > in, Japanese or no Japanese.... :)
> 
> Well, this is for sysinstall.  If it's possible to bring those dialogs
> up in Japanese, we should do so!  I've asked Barry to restart the little
> XPG3 message catalog project he had going..  I'm not sure if they're
> sufficient for non-european languages, but it's a start.  The Japanese
> version can always be done seperately.

XPG/3 will primarily buy you FIGS and other ISO 8859-X support *only*;
the "later" would involve going to XPG/4 or something more useful.

You may wish to consider ISO 2022 based XPG/4 encoding, which will buy
you the 21 top language markets.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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