[GEM Development] Re: FreeGEM internationalization

[Blair Campbell]

Has anyone thought of developing GEM with the kitten library used in
several FreeDOS programs?  It allows a program to read
internationalized strings based on the LANG environment variable
during program execution.

On 6/23/06, Shane M. Coughlan <shane at shaneland.co.uk> wrote:
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> John Elliott wrote:
> >   Now back to the present day. I've finally got around to copying the
> > codepage loader from the ViewMAX/II VGA driver into the two GEM video
> > drivers I've done (SD256 and SDPSC9). They are now both supplied with a
> > GEM.CPI containing several codepages. When started, they should select the
> > correct codepage based on DOS settings (use CHCP under DOS to select the
> > codepage before starting GEM). If you don't like the font supplied, then
> you
> > can replace GEM.CPI with another codepage file in DRFONT format and use
> > that.
>
> This sounds like a significant breakthrough in terms of allow GEM to run
> in different languages.  However, I confess I'm not going to be able to
> implement anything too exciting in this regard; I have no experience of
> using different code-pages.  Does anyone have plans to apply this to a
> GEM distribution?  If someone is will to walk me through it I'd gladly
> put it into OpenGEM!
>
> Shane
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