Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 11:32:25 JST From: Masahiro SEKIGUCHI <seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Japanese syscons font? Message-ID: <9503240232.AA15217@seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> References: <22765.795853220@freefall.cdrom.com> <199503221041.CAA13014@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> * Well, this is for sysinstall. If it's possible to bring those dialogs > * up in Japanese, we should do so! Great. > * XPG3 message catalog project he had going.. I'm not sure if they're > * sufficient for non-european languages, but it's a start. For sysinstall-type of applications, combination of XPG3 message catalog and argument reordering extension to printf (i.e., "%n$" directive) does an excellent job, even for Japanese (or Chinese or Korea, at least.) >The fonts are huge, like k14.pcf.Z (the smallest possible >font) is 264KB.... k14 includes approx. 6K kanji and 0.5K of other letters/symbols. For sysinstall, or any other "display only" utilities, a small subset of them is enough. I guess we need just 1K kanji or so. You cannot, however, let users type in his/her name with the subset. # Hence, Microsoft had to put all 6K kanji in their Japanese windows # floppis. Remember it has "Licensee registeration dialog", which pops # up on installation.
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