I can chip in on two of those languages and one extra.
Serbian:
I have no knowledge of how this normally works in DOS.
Firstly a correction: sr_RS, not sr_SR. Anyway...
Latin script and Cyrillic script are both used in Serbia. Now, you may
wish to consider having an option to have Serbian specifically in a
Latin version and a Cyrillic version, potentially using the language
code "sr" for one and the country code "rs" for the other... but if you
have to choose one or the other, go with Cyrillic. If someone would
rather use Latin script they might take a hit and go with Croatian (hr,
country code HR) instead. (I argue that they're national dialects of a
common language, but this really isn't an ideal solution.)
Japanese:
ja_JP, language code is ja, country code is JP.
Code page 932 which is Shift-JIS. On the NEC PC-98 you get extra glyphs.
On an IBM PC compatible, you need to render this in software in a
graphics mode because there are way more than 512 characters in common
use in the Japanese language.
Do we support the DOS/V API and appropriate fonts? We might have to tell
people to get their own IME for now (Input Method Editor) if they want
to write in Japanese, but
Actually, do we have any DBCS support (double-byte character set) at
all? And would it even be possible for someone to hook an IME up?
Yes and No use Y and N (checked with MS-DOS 6.20 FORMAT). Typically
these get denoted as はい(Y) / いいえ(N) , but FORMAT just says (Y/N).
Quit probably uses Qq as its hotkey. Not sure what the text for Quit
would be, probably 終了(Q) . EDIT uses X implying Exit and uses 終了(X) in
its menu.
Korean:
You didn't explicitly ask for it but here it is anyway.
Language code ko, South Korea is KR, code page 934, EUC-KR encoding.
North Korea is KP but I don't know what all the differences are or the
relevant codepage is.
I'll need a bit more time to get more details as to what is typical here
but I think it's a similar situation to Japanese where you have
NativeText(EnglishLetter).
On 28/01/2026 02:46, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hi, its once again me. *I really need your help* because I do not
speak so many languages! When looking on Jeromes NLS list,
https://shidel.github.io/fd-nls/report.html, I noticed that the
translations are (in part) a chaos. It humanizes there, it is not the
debt of Jerome!
Sometimes the same language uses different codepages, sometimes the
country has wrong country ending, sometimes language endings and
country endings are different etc. etc. So I made this list in the
hope that you inform me when
there is a mistake so that it can be fixed. First of all we
distinguish between LANGUAGE code and COUNTRY code now! I hope they
are correct now. Eg. Estonian (et language / ee country).
Where I am absolutely not sure is the correct codepage as internet
often gives other codepages than expected. The result can be that the
NLS files cannot be read by the user although it should be readable
for him/her.
Why do I need this bullshit? I want to fill up the NLS files with
translations that do not yet exist. And using the wrong codepage from
existing files for a language maybe end in a catastrophe.
Of course this is (in parts) also interesting for country.sys. For
those who do not know what country.sys does, download Mateusz Viste's
localcfg and simply execute the command and you will see it. It can
create an individual country.sys for one country whereas country.sys
supports most countries in one file.
So if you find any mistake, especial with codepage, please please
inform me via mailing list or send a mail to [email protected]!
(I am not sure with Danish/Norvegian/Finland 865 - Sveden 858? and
some cyrillic , e.g. serbia seems to support kyrillic and latin). But
others maybe wrong too, e.g. I noticed that portuguese (860) also used
850/858.
(language / language code/ yes/no/quit + abbreviation, codepage,
correct country code)
english (en) Yes/No / Quit Y N Qq 437 en ok
US ok
brazilian * (pb) Sim/Não / Sair S N Ss 858 pb ?
BR ok
czechian * (cz) Ano/Ne / Ukončit A N Uu 852 cz ?
CZ ok
danish * (dk) Ja/Nej / Afslutte J N Aa 865 dk ?
DK ok
german (de) Ja/Nein / Beenden J N Bb 858 de ok
DE ok
esperanto (eo) Jes/Ne / Fini J N Ff 858 eo ok
NONE! (NO COUNTRY!)
estonian (et) Jah/Ei / Välju J E Vv 775 et ?
EE (NOT IN COUNTRY.SYS)
spanish (es) Sí/No / Salir S N Ss 858 es ok
ES ok
finnish (fi) Kyllä/Ei / Lopeta K E Ll 865 fi ok
FI ok
french (fr) Oui/Non / Quitter O N Qq 858 fr ok
FR ok
hungarian (hu) Igen/Nem / Kilépés I N Kk 852 hu ok
HU ok
icelandic (is) Já/Nei / Hætta J N Hh 861 is ok
IS (NOT IN COUNTRY.SYS)
italian (it) Sì/No / Esci S N Ee 858 it ok
IT ok
latvian (lv) Jā/Nē / Iziet J N Ii 775 lv ok
LV (NOT IN COUNTRY.SYS)
lithuanian (lt) Taip/Ne / Išeiti T N Ii 775 lt ok
LT (NOT IN COUNTRY.SYS)
dutch (nl) Ja/Nee / Afsluiten J N Aa 858 nl ok
NL ok
norwegian (no) Ja/Nei / Avslutt J N Aa 865 no ok
NO ok
polish (pl) Tak/Nie / Wyjdź T N Ww 852 pl ok
PL ok
portuguese (pt) Sim/Não / Sair S N Ss 860 pt ok
PT ok
russian (ru) Да (Da)/Нет (Net) / Выход Д Н Вв 866 ru ok
RU ok
slovakian (sk) Áno/Nie / Ukončiť Á N Uu 852 sk ok
SK (NOT IN COUNTRY.SYS)
slovenian (sl) Da/Ne / Izhod D N Ii 852 sl ok
SI (SI country differs)
serbian (sr) Да (Da)/Не (Ne) / Излаз Д H Ии 855 sr ok
SR (SR)
swedish (sv) Ja/Nej / Avsluta J N Aa 858 sv ok
SE (SE country differs)
turkish (tr) Evet/Hayır / Çıkış E H Çç 857 tr ok
TR ok
ukrainian (uk) Так (Tak)/Ні (Ni) / Вихід Т Н Вв 855 uk ok
UA (UA country differs)
Unknown, not sure if they are needed, but used in at least one NLS file:
basque (eu)....(cp858?) - a small region between spain and france
chinese (zh)....(cp936? - maybe GB2312?)
japanese (jp)....(cp932? - maybe SHIFT JIS?)
latin (la)....(cp437) - the old romans that started with latin
mazovian (?) ....(?) polish???
* brazilian has no language code, so we took pb
* it is known that czech has language code "cs" but stays at cz by a
decision (not mine)
* it is known that danish has language code "ca" but stays at dk by a
decision (not mine)
Please check for:
a) correct LANGUAGE code - here for example: ukrainian (uk)
b) correct COUNTRY code - here for example: ukrainian (ua)
c) correct signs for yes/no/quit
d) most important: correct codepage (437/858/852/775/855 etc.)
ISO LANGUAGE code 639:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ursmaheshj/iso-639-1-language-codes
ISO COUNTRY code 3166: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search
*Thanks for help!*
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