From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 23 18:37:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA07423 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 18:37:37 -0800 Received: from fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp (fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp [164.71.1.133]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA07417 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 18:37:29 -0800 Received: from fdmmail.fujitsu.co.jp by fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp (8.6.9+2.4W/3.3W5-MX941209-Fujitsu Mail Gateway) id LAA12724; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:37:00 +0900 Received: from fdm.fujitsu.co.jp by fdmmail.fujitsu.co.jp (8.6.9+2.4W/3.3W5-MX950127-Fujitsu Domain Mail Master) id LAA08656; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:36:59 +0900 Received: from sysrap by fdm.fujitsu.co.jp (5.65/6.4J.6) id AA09183; Fri, 24 Mar 95 11:36:58 +0900 Received: from seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp by spad.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rrzM5-0009GMC; Fri, 24 Mar 95 11:44 JST Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 11:32:25 JST From: Masahiro SEKIGUCHI Message-Id: <9503240232.AA15217@seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Japanese syscons font? References: <22765.795853220@freefall.cdrom.com> <199503221041.CAA13014@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * 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.