windows-server-2003/base/boot/bootfont

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