Date:	Fri, 06 Feb 1998 15:42:37 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: longname.exe & national language support
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<C5D16945B7@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

On 1998-02-04, Michal Kopec wrote:

> Polish (048,852) national characters in filenames 
> [...]
> Is there any way to force OD longname driver to display Polish
> long filenames correctly ?
Not yet. The LONGNAME driver only supports original ASCII at the 
moment. Everything above 127 will be replaced by 0. This implication 
is due to an OEM codepage <-> Unicode translation, which would be 
required otherwise.

> Is it planned to expand NLS for OpenDos.
As far as I know: Yes. However, some enhancements have even now 
found it's way into DR-OpenDOS/DR-DOS 7.02, including:

- Better decisions between UCASE and FUCASE in the kernel.
- Some COUNTRY.SYS data has been updated or corrected.
- COUNTRY.SYS now supports LCASE (and not only in codepage 866).
- COUNTRY.SYS and COMMAND.COM introduce support for DIN 28601 
  (aka ISO 28601) for Germany (optional country codes 20049 and
  10049): "Japanese" date format (1998-02-06) as used in German
  offices since May 1996, in international business, and in 
  scientific/engineering environments.
- COUNTRY.SYS optionally supports the future Euro currency for most
  Western European countries (21xxx and 11xxx).  
- IBMBIO.COM has been enhanced so that CONFIG.SYS COUNTRY= now 
  accepts all COUNTRY.SYS files of any DOS 3.3+ or DR DOS 3.31+ 
  (a greatly enhanced NLSFUNC 4.00+ with the same feature will show 
  up in the near future, also supporting INT2Fh/14FEh, CL=00h 
  (reserved for XCTL) and CL=03h (LCASE)).
- DISPLAY.SYS also supports non DR DOS .CPI files.
- Year2000 support 

However, nobody has to wait for Caldera to include support for
his/her country/language somewhen in the future. I'm collecting
foreign country data, and if someone needs support for his 
country/codepage relatively soon, he/she could help me alot collecting
info on his country by sending me detailed info on country/codepage 
data (IDs, formats for date/time, numbers, currency, the keyboard 
layouts, alphabet, other issues) and - more important - raster fonts 
in 6x8, 8x8, 12x8 and 16x8 pixels (if possible with commented ASM 
source). 

Matthias

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