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["Krzysztof A. Suchecki" <christopher.suchecki AT wp.pl>]

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

> Yes, 3rd party. 

Pure text console err... command line?
Or something in graphic mode?
(I recollect some soft to learn chinese but it was in graphic mode)

I ask because if it was in pure text command line, it should be possible
to force linux to let you write/read in chinese.

If this 3rd party support was for pure text command line,
the question arises: how many different letters were displayed? 
We can have max. 512.

DOS is not 2bit system, but Linux kernel uses Unicode.


Chris



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