Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 10:03:06 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (Masahiro SEKIGUCHI) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Japanese syscons font? Message-ID: <9503241703.AA09514@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9503240254.AA15225@seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> from "Masahiro SEKIGUCHI" at Mar 24, 95 11:54:07 am
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> >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.
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