NOTE: To build bootfont.bin files, you MUST install and enable the language
support for the target language of the bootfont.bin you need to build.
To generate bootfont.bin files, you can build genfont.exe (in the genfont
directory). Care should be taken to retrieve the proper fonttable.h file
*before* building genfont.exe. The fonttable.h files for chs, cht, jpn,
and kor can be found on these directories. Just drop these header files
into the genfont directory, then build and run genfont.exe.
To build the japanese bootfont.bin file using this method, you would:
1. start intl.cpl
2. Select "Japanese" language. You might be required to have these support
files installed from your installation media.
3. cd \nt\base\boot\bootfont\genfont
4. copy ..\jpn\fonttable.h .
5. build -cZP
6. obj\i386\genfont.exe .\bootfont.bin
To build a CHS, CHT, or KOR bootfont.bin file, just use the respective
fonttable.h files from those directories.
There is another way to build bootfont.bin files too. You can
run convfont.exe, taking as input a legacy (circa build 2195) bootfont.bin
file and convfont.exe will convert this file into the new format.
To build the japanese bootfont.bin file using this method, you would:
1. start intl.cpl
2. Select "Japanese" language. You might be required to have these support
files installed from your installation media.
3. cd \nt\base\boot\bootfont\convert
5. build -cZP
6. obj\i386\convfont.exe ..\jpn\win2k_ver\bootfont.bin ..\jpn\bootfont.bin
To build any of the other bootfont.bin files, you must reset the language
via intl.cpl, reboot, then rerun convfont.exe on the target bootfont.bin file.
Here is a list of the current bootfont.bin files along with some other useful
data.
Locale Abbreviation Locale Country Code Locale String
=================== ====== ============ =============
BR Portuguese (Brazilian) 416 portuguese-brazilian
CHS Chinese PRC (simplified) 804 chinese-simplified
CHT Chinese Tiawan (traditional) 404 chinese-traditional
cS Czech 405 czech
DA Danish 406 danish
EL Greek 408 greek
ES Spanish (default) C0A spanish
FI Finnish 40B finnish
FR French 40C french
GER German 407 german
HU Hungarian 40E hungarian
IT Italian 410 italian
JPN Japanese 411 japanese
KOR Korean 412 korean
NL Dutch (Netherlands) 413 dutch
NO Norwegian Bokmal 414 norwegian
PL Polish 415 polish
PT Portuguese (default) 816 portuguese
RU Russian 419 russian
SV Swedish 41D swedish
TR Turkish 41F turkish
-matth
