Woops.Typo.I typed "Thought",I meant to type "Though" On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:17 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU < jcharbonnea...@cpsge.org> wrote:
> 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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