At Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:47:45 -0700,
Motoyuki Konno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "Michael C . Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > 1. The future of sysinstall (or whatever should replace it)
> > The future installer/management utility should be
> > able to handle arbitrary character sets.
> > In other words, it should be able to display Chinese/Japanese/etc.
> > with user selection. To be discussed.
>
> There is a difficulty in multilingual install floppy: size limitation
> that comes from floppy disk size (1.44M). The font file of Chinese,
> Japanese, Korean are very big.
But 4.1.1 multilingual boot.flp
(htpp://people.FreeBSD.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/) shrinks font files into
20-30KB for each language (Japanese and Korean). In fact, the size of
help files and message catalog is fatal in size limitation rather than
the font size.
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