Z98, I also lost translation access.
I had translated Japanese pages before.

katayama_hirofumi_mzさん、はじめまして。 私はコードを書いたりできませんが、このプロジェクトには興味があります。私なりにいろいろ調べてみました。 TSFはIMMの後継ということで、Office XPのころからでしたよね。 IMMを使ってそうなフリーのIMEといえばskkimeしか思いつきませんが、これもReactOSでは現状は動かないようです。 Google 日本語入力はTSFでIMMには対応していないようです。 http://www.google.com/support/ime/japanese/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs こちら...

How about Droid Sans Fallback font? It has Japanese, Chinese , and Korean glyphs, and (IMVHO) looks better then Systema font. Some screenshots: Japanese: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 Chinese: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 Korean: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 It's nice! Systema font looks too large. So it seems better than Systema font.

hto wrote:Well, a file with Misaki font is uploaded here. Could you please try it (in an emulator and on real hardware, if possible)? For me, it is difficult to read, because it looks dark.

I tried it.
Certainly, it looks dark a little. However, I think it improved than before.

hto wrote:By the way, have somebody ever looked at a bitmap Japanese font which is now included in ReactOS? Does it look nice or terrible?

Frankly it is difficult to read.
I think we should use another font such as Misaki.

How about Izumi Bitmap font?
Anyway,can Kanji character be displayed?

hto wrote:I think it was already discussed… Do you have some other suggestions?

Does Systema font look large?

hto wrote:Sabiki, are there any other changes needed to support Japanese, apart from font substitutes in usetup?

maybe there aren't.
By the way,Japanese setting was added to usetup in r39960.
But Japanese fonts were not added. Why? Only usetup?

hto wrote:Does anybody know a free Japanese font, which have the metrics about as MS UI Gothic?

How about IPA Mona fonts?
IPA Mona UI Gothic is included.

Black_Fox wrote:Well, will then different languages of usetup use different fonts?

No. Maybe Japanese vga font is not included.

I don't think that a Japanese font should be committed to the trunk, testers often download CD images from the server, and it will just increase traffic. People who use it can easily add it themselves, instead of downloading it every time. Or maybe somebody can create a Japanese version of ReactOS ...

hto wrote:It's not difficult to add font substitutes to usetup, but I'm not sure which font to choose. I think VL PGothic looks a bit too large. Maybe some other font will suit better?

A Misaki font is smaller than VL Gothic font.
The size of the font file is 147KB.
The license is here.

hto wrote:

sabiki wrote:I created a patch.

What should be changed?

It is chiefly usetup.

I created a patch.
But come to think about it,Japanese fonts are too large.

Japanese texts are garbled in ReactOS. So I think we should add a Japanese font. I think the VLGothic font(http://dicey.org/vlgothic/) is the most suitable to add. This font is included in famous open source Operating Systems.(e.g. Ubuntu,Fedora and FreeBSD...) I hope developer adds the font to Reac...