Hi, On Thu, 4 May 2023 at 20:38, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > * Collating/lowercase/uppercase tables, which in turn implies that > > DBCS are handled where strings are handled, and my worry is about > > filenames: how are filenames stored? how does it relate to 8.3 > > limitation, does it become 4.1 or does it require LFN...? > For one, as DOS/V would specifically apply to Japanese (but the same > would apply at least to Hangul (Korean) and Chinese), none of the script > systems being used (Katagana, Hiragana, and certainly not Kanji (Chinese > "characters")) has the concept of upper case/lower case... > Yeah, I know :) I just mentioned for completion, and specially for the collating table. > Ok, here is were that soft brown matter hits the fast rotating household > appliance. I am pretty sure that in order to create a DBCS version of > MS/PC-DOS, they did not use one and the same code base. Some basic DOS > function would have to be completely replaced with DBCS aware versions, > I don't think you can simply maintain dual-capable versions without > significantly increased memory requirements. > Sure thing. Most worrying to me is to deal with DBCS strings where kernel deals with strings, that is specially on filenames. > And most importantly, I don't think that we at FreeDOS have simply the > capacity to do any such adaptation. It would require AT LEAST one person > that is fluent in English and Japanese, as well as being sufficiently > proficient in programming. I don't think there is even remotely anyone > that could possibly fill that role within the current participants, nor > even lurkers, or they would be more active (and possibly proposing > required changes). > Agreed. > This would not only apply to adaptations to the before mentioned East > Asian languages and scripting systems, but also to things like > right-to-left systems like Arabic and Hebrew > (Urdu/Farsi/Pashto/Punjabi/Sindhi/etc) > Yeah, that's another adventure that would involve heavier changes in the console at least. Aitor
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