OS/2 tricks: How to set up DBCS environment on SBCS OS/2 #2 Display DBCS characters
Displaying DBCS characters on SBCS requires at least two things. First is a font driver supporting UNICODE fonts correctly, second is fonts themselves for DBCS. Other than these, there are some other things needed. 1. Font Driver Nowadays, most of fonts are True Type Font. OS/2 also supports it. However, default true type font driver does not support unicode fonts correctly. Especially, DBCS fonts. So if you want to use DBCS fonts, you should install another font driver for a true type font. It's <FreeType/2> . FreeType/2 has several versions. 1.0.x and 1.1.x released by Michael Necasek, 1.2.x released by me, 1.3.x and 2.x released by Alex Taylor. Out of these, you should use 1.2.x or later. You can get them here. FreeType/2 1.2.x: http://www.ecomstation.co.kr/komh/os2factory/#freetype2 FreeType/2 IFI 1.3.x and 2.x: http://www.altsan.org/programming/os2/index.html#ft2 For installations, see their README. 2. Font IBM provided fonts containing CJK glyphs by