Re: [hatari-devel] Setting TOS language / keyboard (was: which version of emutos for next Hatari )

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

2 weeks gone with no comments?

I'm especially interested whether the TOS check criteria looks OK, i.e. 
doing the country code setting only for multilanguage TOS (= unmodified 
EmuTOS 1024k, or older 512k, and TOS v4) versions.

And setting PAL/NTSC based on whether it's US country code, like EmuTOS 
tos-lang-change tool does.

And whether the LANG thing is actually good idea..

Thomas?


	- Eero

On 12.5.2022 21.49, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Attached is implementation for what I proposed.
>
> Comments?
>
>      - Eero
>
> On 8.5.2022 20.12, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > On 7.5.2022 12.46, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > Am Sat, 7 May 2022 10:35:46 +0200
> > > schrieb Christian Zietz <czietz@xxxxxxx>:
> > > > Nicolas Pomarède schrieb:
> > > > > for a next EmuTOS version, could there be a way to choose language 
> > > > > from
> > > > > the boot screen too ? This would make it easier for people using 
> > > > > stf/ste
> > > > > mode where there's no nvram to choose a different language from 
> > > > > english
> > > > > at boot.
> > > >
> > > > Funny, I intended to ask *you* a similar question in my previous 
> > > > mail --
> > > > but I forgot to include it.
> > > >
> > > > Could a future Hatari release offer a way to choose the language via 
> > > > its
> > > > configuration options?
> >
> > FYI: new Hatari version has "nLanguage" and "nKbdLayout" settings in 
> > the configuration "Keyboard" section, which can be set to desired 
> > country code (-1=unset).
> >
> > One can use "--language" and "--layout" command line options to set 
> > them (before saving config):
> > ---------------------------------
> > $ hatari --language foo
> > Unrecognized language code 'foo'!
> >
> > TOS v4 supports:
> > - us : USA
> > - de : Germany
> > - fr : France
> > - uk : United Kingdom
> > - es : Spain
> > - it : Italy
> > - se : Sweden
> >
> > EmuTOS 1024k (v1.1.x) supports also:
> > - ch_fr : Switzerland (French)
> > - ch_de : Switzerland (German)
> > - tr : Turkey
> > - fi : Finland
> > - no : Norway
> > - dk : Denmark
> > - sa : Saudi Arabia
> > - nl : Holland
> > - cs : Czech Republic
> > - hu : Hungary
> > - ru : Russia
> > - gr : Greece
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> >
> > > > Basically, the 1024k ROM is an "emulator-only" version of EmuTOS 
> > > > [1], as
> > > > no Atari machine supports 1024k ROMs. And we created this 
> > > > multi-language
> > > > ROM mainly for the benefit of emulators not having to ship N different
> > > > language versions.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, I'm Cc'ing your question to the EmuTOS list, since I'm not sure
> > > > if EmuTOS would even support a language change at runtime. As soon as
> > > > the boot screen is shown, one language has obviously already been 
> > > > selected.
> > >
> > > I think the best way would be to patch the ROM header of EmuTOS in 
> > > Hatari
> > > according to the LANG environment variable. IIRC EmuTOS honors the 
> > > language
> > > setting in the ROM header, too, so that would be an easy solution as 
> > > far as
> > > I can tell.
> >
> > As there's already Hatari config & CLI options support for the NVRAM 
> > setting and 2-letter country code => TOS country code value mapping 
> > code, adding LANG parsing + setting TOS header value should not be 
> > much additional code.
> >
> > The problem with the OS header country code is that it affects *both* 
> > language and keyboard layout, but:
> > * LANG env var is only about language
> > * quite a few people want keyboard setting different from language 
> > setting
> >
> > IMHO clearest would be to:
> > * Default Keyboard.nLanguage to a country code  based on LANG i.e. it 
> > would normally just affect NVRAM setting
> > * Set OS header country code only when both Keyboard.nLanguage and 
> > Keyboard.nKbdLayout values match
> >
> >
> >      - Eero