The simple answer is - you can't. For starters you would need to activate the secondary character table in text mode, giving you 512 characters to work with, at the expense of 8 background colours. Therein lies the problem though. Firstly, it only works on EGA and VGA cards and secondly - as the highest bit of the screen attribute is repurposed to indicate which character table the char is coming from - you would need to include the screen attribute in the NLS files.
cheers, Hippo On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 01:24, Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > While perusing Github, I noticed that the NLS project hasn't upgraded Edlin, > which has three new messages to be translated. I also noticed that recently, > many of the downloads of Edlin from SourceForge are from Hong Kong, which I > found amusing. I also found a "fork" of Edlin in Github where the guy > translated the messages into Simplified Chinese. This begs the question of > what I should do to get Edlin to work with Simplified Chinese (I know very > little about how an Asian language with 50,000 characters is used on a PC) > and can we include it in NLS. I think searching for "edlin.zh-hans" on Github > will find it. > > Gregory > _______________________________________________ > 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
