Honestly,if you ask me,every computer around the world was made with ONE flaw:The BIOS contains a static language set.Pure DOS mode kernels (like FreeDOS) use BIOS to display ASCII characters.BIOS should have a country setting where it has MULTIPLE ASCII character sets for each country (So you could have DOS displaying everything in Japanese,or Dutch,or..you get the idea).I've looked into this a bit,and creating our own ASCII font is just bizarre (Thought that would be cool to make everyone install our own BIOS).Perhaps we could ask some fellow devs in other countries how they read their 16 bit systems?I mean,I am pretty sure that all programming languages use English (IF..THEN..ELSE).A lot of countries DO use MS-DOS/FreeDOS in some way shape or form.Just an idea I am tossing out,as certain languages can't be displayed without graphical fonts. And,as an added question,how did they manage to make DOS readable to all these countries back in the 80s and 90s?Regards, Jayden
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Maarten Vermeulen <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Btw, I had several times that my name was wrote badly... Someone called me > 'Maartin'. > The bad spellers name begins also with an M... :P > I think it is because it isn't a amarican/english name. It is a typic > Dutch name. But if you say Martin I can accept that. If I go to an English > country I really should introduce me like Maartin. > > Anyways... > > > Maarten > ------------------------------ > Van: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > Verzonden: 21-12-2015 20:04 > Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations > > > > On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Maarten Vermeulen <netraa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Dutch, yes me but there is one thing my name is MAARTEN NOT Marteen.... :) > Maarten (me) does dutch. I am currently working on FDSETUP.DEF, almost > finished. > The other files not to be translated. I am planning to first translate aal > the files and then make a .zip and send it to you. > > Thanks (and write the name good next time > ;-). ), > > Maarten > > > Sorry Maarten. Think it was the iOS spell checker. :( > > ------------------------------ > Van: Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> > Verzonden: 21-12-2015 15:07 > Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Onderwerp: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations > > At present, based on a user Facebook poll. This is the state of > current Language Translations for FDI. I don’t know if all of these > are possible using the Standard DOS Latin Codepage. > > I don’t know if it is would be possible to have FDI keep changing the > Codepage and Character set. But, I don’t think Jim would want the > added complexity. So, I will not be adding it even if it is possible. > > English - Me, Done. > Spanish - Me and Google, Done. > French - Paul Dufresne, Mostly Done. > Dutch - Marteen, Unknown/Pending. > > German - Nobody. > Japanese - Nobody. > Russian - Nobody. > Chinese - Nobody. > Welsh - Nobody. > Patagonian - Nobody. > Basque - Nobody. > Navajo - Nobody. > Sanskrit - Nobody. > Swahili - Nobody. > > Any volunteers? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > >
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