Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:16:14 +0900 From: Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp> To: motoyuki@bsdclub.org Cc: keichii@peorth.iteration.net, i18n@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, hosokawa@sm.rim.or.jp Subject: Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals Message-ID: <86bswgpdtd.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:47:45 -0700" <200010191747.e9JHljY09298@misato.mk.bsdclub.org> References: <20001019033252.A31416@peorth.iteration.net> <200010191747.e9JHljY09298@misato.mk.bsdclub.org>
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At Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:47:45 -0700, Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@bsdclub.org> wrote: > > "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>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. But 4.1.1 multilingual boot.flp (htpp://people.FreeBSD.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/) shrinks font files into 20-30KB for each language (Japanese and Korean). In fact, the size of help files and message catalog is fatal in size limitation rather than the font size. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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