Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:15:42 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: To Asian FreeBSD hackers: Japanese boot.flp is now available! Message-ID: <4399.837015342@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:40:10 GMT." <199607102240.WAA00268@leinlein.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>
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> We release the alpha-test version of Japanese boot.flp for FreeBSD > 2.2-960612-SNAP. It contains all fonts for ASCII character set (128 > chars), JIS-0201x-1979 "Kana" character set (128 chars with 8th bit), > and JIS-0208-1983 level 1 "Kanji" character set (about 3000 multibyte > chars) in only "one 2HD 1.44MB floppy" !! It can display these > mutibyte characters on normal PC VGA display without any special > localized hardware. That sounds really neat! It's too bad you guys haven't done one for 2.1.5-STABLE also, we could put it on the upcoming CD.. :-( How long would it take you to do that, seriously? If you started with a fresh 2.1-STABLE tree today, you'd have essentially the same sysinstall bits (and docs) I intend to put on the 2.1.5 CD this Friday, and I don't expect that'd be any more difficult to retrofit in than your 2.2 work since I'm using the same sysinstall sources in both branches. If I could get a Japanese installation boot floppy on there, I might even wait a day or two past friday. :-) > I think it is possible to create Chinese boot.flp, Korean (hangul) > boot.flp, etc. based on this work. If you're interested in creating > your boot.flp in your mother tongue, please e-mail me! I think that'd be really nice. We tried some experimental I18N support in 2.0.5, as you remember, but that all fell apart due to the fact that we really needed to come up with a better way of localizing the install and I never really put the necessary time into it (hangs head). Maybe you guys will be the inspiration we need to restart that project! :-) Jordan
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