Hi Basudeb, Not that I am too familiar with Asian locale, mainly due to my lack of knowledge and also lack of hardware for testing, but here it is what I know of it.
I am afraid that what Henrique is telling you is only half of the game that one would need to get a fully Japanese system. DBCS is not currently supported, as far as I know, nor for Kernel, neither DISPLAY.SYS (currently DISPLAY.EXE) or other drivers, so there's no "Open source FreeDOS" way to get Japanese or any other Asian scripts printed on the screen. Having said that, the things are a bit better for Japanese than for other Asian languages such as Chinese or Taiwanese, because it seems that in the usual way of doing this that I was informed by some Japanese helpers of mine, the keyboard "driver" can just emit one-single characters, and there's another component, the Front-End Processor (FEP) that would bridge between the single-byte keyboard driver and the DBCS system. Unfortunately, I don't know of any open source FEP to be used, but fortunately it was a very slight change to be done to current FD-KEYB to support this, and that I did in the previous version. Henrique composed the Japanese keyboard layout inside one such KEYBOARD.SYS file, and unfortunately we didn't manage to have it tested in an integral test, although unitary tests showed KEYB+this layout did as it should. Regarding the compiler, each tool is compiled under a particular one, and you can compile the kernel itself with several. If I had to choose, I'd say OpenWatcom. And finally about the interrupt list, there isn't AFAIK a list of what has been implemented and what hasn't. There is a list over there that I have seen, but I don't think it's updated. Source is your friend ;-) Aitor > Bom dia Henrique, > > Thank you and other list members very much for your kind reply and > encouragement. > I did get some angry snorts from a particular honorable member, but I > guess > that is part of initiation rites into any new group :-) > > Going by your suggestion, I got the jp106.txt fiel and am consulting my > Japanese friends to interpret > the file. But I need a little more hand-holding to help me on the right > track. > > a) What is the standard C compiler that I should get for FreeDOS? > > b) Assuming FreeDOS is supposed to be an implementation of MSDOS 6.22 > where do I get the manual/function descriptions for FreeDOS now? For > example, > can I use int 21 kind of calls and if so, which is the authentic manual > for > all int 21 functions? > > c) When I installed FreeDOS , I selected Japanese mode. That came up as > Japanese text > during multi-boot. But after that it is all English. Is it OK or I am > going wrong somewhere? > > Thanks again > Basudeb > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Henrique Peron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 00:49:07 > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese > > > Namaste Basudeb, > > first of all, welcome. Second, there aren't such things like stupid > questions. Feel comfortable to ask whatever you want. :-) > The point is, you would need a special program to display japanese. > For the time being, FreeDOS in itself is only able to handle languages > written with latin, greek, cyrillic, armenian and georgian scripts. > Nevertheless, there is a japanese readme file (JP106.TXT) on the KPDOS > pack. > You'll find it here: > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/ > > Download the 22X package, which contains the library files. The 22S file > is > meant for users which intend to modify/develop their own keyboard layout > files, which seems not to be your case. > > I hope that helps. > > Henrique > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "basudeb gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:06 PM > Subject: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese > > > |I am a raw first time user. Please excuse me for stupid questions. > | > | I basically want to have a multi-lingual program running under Freedos. > My > first doubt is how to select language and display Japanese. > | > | Please help and let me take my first small steps. > | > | Thanks > | Basudeb > | > | > | > | ------------------------------------------------------- > | This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > | for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > | searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > | http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > | _______________________________________________ > | Freedos-user mailing list > | Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > | > | > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! 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