Re: Internationalization - reducing image size

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Well, you should carefully read your license for Windows CE distribution
because, unless it's very unlike mine, you are not licensed to separately
distribute parts of the operating system, separate from the nk.bin contents.

Paul T.

"Shreds" <Shreds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Yes, but do we need to include the codepages in the nk.bin image? We
> would
> like to ship a minimally globalized image and then have language packages
> available for each region. This relies on the fonts, code pages, and IMEs
> being added by an installer package and NOT being part of the nk.bin we
> ship.
>
> Thanks in advance for your reply!
>
>
> "Doug Cook [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> The codepages are used for converting data to and from Unicode. While a
>> lot
>> of text in memory is Unicode, a lot of text on disk/flash/rom or on the
>> network is in other encodings and needs to be converted. For example,
>> web
>> pages and email have to be converted.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks!
>> Doug
>>
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>> "Shreds" <Shreds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:99B7F174-B3A8-475E-8F8E-845AE5ABECA7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Can I remove code pages from the final CE 5.0 image to reduce image
>> > size?
>> > Since CE is Unicode based - why do I need to include the codepages in
>> > the
>> > nk.bin image at all? (Perhaps the CE GDI translates the Unicode
>> > characters
>> > back to ansii?) If CE cannot use the Unicode "codepage" directly, is
>> > there a
>> > way to add them dynamically so only users that require them can
>> > download
>> > and
>> > install them and we do not have to build them into the image?
>>
>>
>>


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