Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 15:42:37 +0100 From: Matthias Paul 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: Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen Precedence: bulk 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, GERMANY eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Caldera Digital Research Systems/OpenLinux: http://www.caldera.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------