Hello!

Although I am some years late, my thoughts on this thread. By the way, a
very interesting thread on localisation for a hard case (the need for DBCS).

These thoughts are provided from the simple logic, not knowing about DOS/V.
In my understanding, supporting Japanese would *at least* require the
following functionalities, where the clue is given by NLSFUNC/COUNTRY:
* Country settings (for date, currency, etc.), that should be easy.
* 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...?
* All character devices that currently support IOCTL, should support this
DBCS. As we have no PRINTER.SYS for PRN, we just need to focus on CON:
    - DISPLAY.SYS does not support DBCS, but I suppose that NNANSI that is
being discussed here will do the work. However:
    - It would require KEYB to work with DBCS: this could work well:
           + if no codepage change is to be issued, DBCS can be outed as
"strings" by keyb (with an appropriate KL file)
           + if codepage changes is to be issued (because NNANSI implements
it), it should call  KEYB
* Finally, non-console UI utilities should be made to work with DBCS: this
includes EDIT, INSTALL, ...

All that I can come up with for adding NLS support to DOS (probably there
are more that I am neglecting).

Aitor



On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 at 07:47, sparky4 <spar...@cock.li> wrote:

> ah! i will fix that asap
>
> i just changed the configuration and compiled it
>
> thats all
>
> FreeDOS/V is to DOS/V
> like what FreeDOS is to DOS
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