The "infrastructure" to support single-byte as well as multi-byte character sets was implemented (based on the FOSS4G efforts). A multilingual terminal emulator with multi-byte support is mlterm.
Using this terminal, GRASS 6 is already able to display e.g. Japanese fonts in SQL queries (here DBF file):

Tcl/TK TTF Support

Also the TclTK based graphical user interface renders TTF characters. Here an example for simple Chinese (the underlaying .po file is coded in UTF-8):

Here an example for Hindi (the underlaying .po file is coded in UTF-8):

Major parts of GRASS 6.2+ were translated to Vietnamese:

XDRIVER TTF Support

The XDRIVER in GRASS supports True/Free Type Fonts.

Statistics of current GRASS internationalization (i18N) status

The table is ordered by number of translated messages per language. The two character codes indicate the language, based on the Alpha-2 code of ISO 639-1. For download of a currently sleeping translation, please either get the file directly from the GRASS-CVS or see above.

GRASSLIBS

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Russian grasslibs_ru.po 923 7 1

Czech grasslibs_cs.po 911 6 10

Spanish grasslibs_es.po 787 98 46

Thai grasslibs_th.po 629 215 79

Portuguese grasslibs_pt.po 490 264 169

German grasslibs_de.po 482 296 145

Chinese grasslibs_zh.po 458 306 159

Turkish grasslibs_tr.po 432 191 300

Portuguese grasslibs_pt_br.po 356 279 288

Vietnamese grasslibs_vi.po 317 313 293

Italian grasslibs_it.po 315 312 296

French grasslibs_fr.po 285 339 299

Polish grasslibs_pl.po 265 284 374

Latvian grasslibs_lv.po 250 302 371

Slovenian grasslibs_sl.po 229 341 353

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasslibs_el.po 201 104 626

Arabic grasslibs_ar.po 160 299 464

Korean grasslibs_ko.po 42 159 722

Marathi grasslibs_mr.po 20 167 736

Hindi grasslibs_hi.po 2 508 413

Japanese grasslibs_ja.po 0 251 672

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSMODS

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Russian grassmods_ru.po 5627 40 15

Czech grassmods_cs.po 5373 214 62

Thai grassmods_th.po 5065 448 122

Spanish grassmods_es.po 4869 609 204

Turkish grassmods_tr.po 2597 362 2676

German grassmods_de.po 2553 2080 1002

Vietnamese grassmods_vi.po 2547 2268 820

French grassmods_fr.po 2219 2390 1026

Polish grassmods_pl.po 1620 1933 2082

Portuguese grassmods_pt.po 1518 3045 1072

Portuguese grassmods_pt_br.po 1485 3079 1071

Chinese grassmods_zh.po 948 2238 2449

Italian grassmods_it.po 829 2100 2706

Arabic grassmods_ar.po 521 2378 2736

Slovenian grassmods_sl.po 425 2510 2700

Latvian grassmods_lv.po 347 2012 3276

Marathi grassmods_mr.po 2 1095 4538

Korean grassmods_ko.po 1 734 4900

Greek, Modern (1453-) grassmods_el.po 0 5635

Japanese grassmods_ja.po 0 3050 2585

Hindi grassmods_hi.po 0 3486 2149

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSTCL

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Czech grasstcl_cs.po 1435 1 1

Russian grasstcl_ru.po 1430 3 4

Thai grasstcl_th.po 1415 18 4

Indonesian grasstcl_id.po 1413 20 4

Portuguese grasstcl_pt_br.po 1352 51 34

Portuguese grasstcl_pt.po 1182 175 80

Turkish grasstcl_tr.po 1119 15 303

Spanish grasstcl_es.po 1066 248 123

Italian grasstcl_it.po 1012 266 159

French grasstcl_fr.po 791 275 371

German grasstcl_de.po 764 403 270

Polish grasstcl_pl.po 730 380 327

Vietnamese grasstcl_vi.po 724 425 288

Chinese grasstcl_zh.po 220 19 1198

Amharic grasstcl_am.po 174 82 1181

Slovenian grasstcl_sl.po 0 1437

Korean grasstcl_ko.po 0 1437

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasstcl_el.po 0 1437

Arabic grasstcl_ar.po 0 1437

Hindi grasstcl_hi.po 0 1437

Japanese grasstcl_ja.po 0 672 765

Latvian grasstcl_lv.po 0 127 1310

Marathi grasstcl_mr.po 0 1437

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSWXPY

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Russian grasswxpy_ru.po 1580 1 1

Czech grasswxpy_cs.po 1549 8 11

Spanish grasswxpy_es.po 954 274 354

Turkish grasswxpy_tr.po 757 227 581

German grasswxpy_de.po 429 646 490

This table is generated weekly.
The relevant column is 'Translated messages' as the message files do not necessarily contain all available messages of GRASS.

Last change: $Date: 2008-10-30 07:42:22 -0700 (Thu, 30 Oct 2008) $
$Author: neteler $