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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 03:34:01PM +0200, Krzysztof A. Suchecki wrote:
> Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> 
> > > Adding support for foreign language can be divided into:
> > Does this work for chinese(big5, gb)?
> 
> The steps should be similar.
> But... but everything I found in Slackware 9.0 / Mandrake 9.0
> for Chinese was for X and not for pure text console.
> 
> How many different letters do you use in big5 or gb?

Chinese is 2-bits, English and most European languages are 1-bit.

> In pure text mode (not this emulated in xterm) vga card
> can display max. only 512 different letters on the same screen
> at the same time. (I hope you catch it). Ega and lower - only max. 256. 
> Under X there is no such a problem, because X works in graphic mode.

It will slow my system to a crawl.

> 
> Tell me one more thing: was there support for chinese in DOS times?

Yes, 3rd party.

> Was there a chinese version of M$-DOG?

Not sure. Probably not.

> 
> 
> Chris
> 
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