If it's just for the installer itself, it shouldn't be much text at all. In fact, a few KB may be all that's needed for /all/ the supported languages. Now, if one were to broaden multi-language support to the entire OS, then yes the requirements would go up considerably. Still likely no more than a few megs though considering they are pure text resources.

On 11/25/2015 9:26 AM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU wrote:
I am just a bit worried that our OS will be HUGE due to the language resources.A few KB is fine,hopefully it doesn't go above that.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Mercury Thirteen <mercury0x0...@gmail.com <mailto:mercury0x0...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Thanks for the shout! :)

    Many (most?) OSs have sets of strings in their resource files
    containing translated versions of all the necessary text.
    Including many languages isn't that space-wasting, as you have the
    benefit of the data being purely text. There would likely not be
    more than a few KB used for all the strings in any necessary
    language.


    On 11/24/2015 12:45 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU wrote:
    Whoa...this thread changed rapidly.As for me,I am simply a
    scientist.I study Quantum physics,Astronomy,Meteorology,and
    Computer sciences.I began programming back around 2012,starting
    with a BASIC compiler.I then began to mess around with
    BATCH.Things really kicked into motion when a power surge wiped
    my HDD clean (really strange disaster).I didn't have the funds to
    buy another Win-7 key,so I installed FreeDOS.I began to poke
    around with DOS,and eventually became an expert with QBASIC.It
    went from there.I joined the DEV forums here,and helped with a
    few things.I received help from a lot of members (A shout out to
    mercury for being the person who put me in the loop of
    everything).Shortly after,I began to mess with Java for a short
    time (Java is my worst enemy...I can't even get "HELLO!" out of
    it without banging my head against something).I then began to
    mess with Borland Turbo C++,then ASM.I develop games on a gaming
    platform that uses LUA in my spare time,and I also perform at
    concerts in my band (Flute).Now,with that stuff aside,let's get
    back to the language.

    As long as the user can READ what the screen is displaying,we
    should be fine.If the user looks at the screen and thinks it says
    "Icecream formatted burger?",then something is wrong with the
    translation.I think we should host an online repo/archive with
    all the language INI (Or however the extensions work with the
    installer) files;Which can be downloaded by any user who happens
    to be Dutch (Hi Maarten) for example.Just an idea,as it would be
    a real pain to have EVERY language on EARTH fitted into one
    CD/VOLUME.I mean,I could research how modern OSes do it (Ubuntu
    especially) on their installation utils.Regards,Jayden

    On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Maarten Vermeulen
    <netraa...@gmail.com <mailto:netraa...@gmail.com>> wrote:

        There are always people that are unkind...
        Everywhere
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Van: Steve Nickolas <mailto:usots...@buric.co>
        Verzonden: ‎24-‎11-‎2015 15:22
        Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS
        developers. <mailto:freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
        Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

        On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Geraldo Netto wrote:

        > well, nyc feels a lot like sao paulo (where i was born/live
        now), huge
        > city, unkind/always-in-a-rush people (imho)

        Doesn't have to be a big city to have that kind of attitude,
        Niagara Falls
        has a lot of jerks too...

        -uso.

        
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