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  • From: Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] locale
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:03:16 +0000

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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