From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 24 09:09:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA09937 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 09:09:33 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA09929 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 09:09:32 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA09514; Fri, 24 Mar 95 10:03:07 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503241703.AA09514@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Japanese syscons font? To: seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (Masahiro SEKIGUCHI) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 10:03:06 MST Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9503240254.AA15225@seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> from "Masahiro SEKIGUCHI" at Mar 24, 95 11:54:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >The first third party LKM was a console driver called "World 21". It > >was an ISO 2022 driver based on (I think) JIS 212 (might have been the > >older 208). > > JIS X 212 is a supplement to X 208. Sole use of X 212 doesn't make > sense. "World 21" must support X 208 only or both X 208 and X 212. I'm sorry; the "212" I was referring to was a font that was inclusive of 208. It should have been "JIS 212 + 208". > Hmm. Your work must have addressed a "complete" > internationalizaion... For sysinstall, I think, we just need: Yes. Including the ability to rename the password file and system directories to locale-specific names without recompiling binaries. The shell work was far from complete, however, and most utilities fell back to the old interfaces by definition. > (1) ways of altering messages yes. > (2) ways to display non-ASCII characters on the screen. yes. > >It also has the little problem of needing 1280x1024 to get > >an 80x25 standard font cell screen. > > It is common among Japanese PC that a Kanji occupies two columns on a > screen. IBM/Microsoft DOS/V, which is a Japanese version of DOS, runs > with 640x480 standard VGA screen, allowing 40x25 Kanji capacity. So I learned ...*after* doing the implementation. 8-). > # I agree that the console driver must implement complicated control > # over cell management in this case. DOS/V console driver (so-called > # JDISP) did it. Which is more popular now, DOS/V PC's, or the NEC machines? The NEC would require a different console driver anyway, since the hardware is different. I remember that this had been done back in the 386BSD 0.1 days. I have tried to get my hands on a NEC machine here in the US with no luck. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.