Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplified Chinese Edlin?

2023-11-19 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 00:24, Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel wrote: > This begs the question of what I should do to get Edlin to work with > Simplified Chinese I believe this was once common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETen_Chinese_System I know that Japanese faces similar issues and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplified Chinese Edlin?

2023-11-15 Thread Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel
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

[Freedos-devel] Simplified Chinese Edlin?

2023-11-14 Thread Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
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