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 6 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-SVN or see above.

GRASSLIBS

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Spanish grasslibs_es.po 945 20 2

Czech grasslibs_cs.po 923 3 7

Russian grasslibs_ru.po 922 10 1

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasslibs_el.po 771 32 130

Thai grasslibs_th.po 592 250 91

French grasslibs_fr.po 585 252 96

German grasslibs_de.po 517 316 97

Turkish grasslibs_tr.po 466 58 409

Portuguese grasslibs_pt.po 457 297 179

Chinese grasslibs_zh.po 434 339 160

Polish grasslibs_pl.po 417 117 399

Portuguese grasslibs_pt_br.po 334 310 289

Vietnamese grasslibs_vi.po 296 342 295

Italian grasslibs_it.po 292 343 298

Latvian grasslibs_lv.po 229 331 373

Slovenian grasslibs_sl.po 212 366 355

Arabic grasslibs_ar.po 144 326 463

Korean grasslibs_ko.po 42 191 700

Marathi grasslibs_mr.po 20 200 713

Hindi grasslibs_hi.po 0 526 407

Japanese grasslibs_ja.po 0 281 652

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSMODS

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Czech grassmods_cs.po 5896 36 33

German grassmods_de.po 5869 54 96

Russian grassmods_ru.po 5453 26 17

Thai grassmods_th.po 4319 951 222

Spanish grassmods_es.po 4164 1043 318

Turkish grassmods_tr.po 2652 488 2352

Vietnamese grassmods_vi.po 2150 2468 874

French grassmods_fr.po 2068 2817 1104

Polish grassmods_pl.po 1992 1635 1877

Portuguese grassmods_pt.po 1376 3021 1095

Portuguese grassmods_pt_br.po 1344 3053 1095

Chinese grassmods_zh.po 917 2359 2216

Italian grassmods_it.po 733 2227 2532

Arabic grassmods_ar.po 502 2465 2525

Slovenian grassmods_sl.po 411 2598 2483

Latvian grassmods_lv.po 317 2131 3044

Greek, Modern (1453-) grassmods_el.po 246 267 5040

Marathi grassmods_mr.po 2 1297 4193

Korean grassmods_ko.po 1 960 4531

Japanese grassmods_ja.po 0 3109 2383

Hindi grassmods_hi.po 0 3545 1947

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSTCL

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Czech grasstcl_cs.po 1450 1

Russian grasstcl_ru.po 1443 4 4

French grasstcl_fr.po 1414 29 8

Thai grasstcl_th.po 1410 32 9

Indonesian grasstcl_id.po 1408 34 9

Portuguese grasstcl_pt_br.po 1347 65 39

Portuguese grasstcl_pt.po 1179 187 85

Italian grasstcl_it.po 1145 172 141

Turkish grasstcl_tr.po 1114 29 308

Polish grasstcl_pl.po 1074 129 248

Spanish grasstcl_es.po 1062 261 128

German grasstcl_de.po 838 343 270

Vietnamese grasstcl_vi.po 722 436 293

Chinese grasstcl_zh.po 220 28 1203

Amharic grasstcl_am.po 174 89 1188

Slovenian grasstcl_sl.po 0 1451

Korean grasstcl_ko.po 0 1451

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasstcl_el.po 0 1451

Arabic grasstcl_ar.po 0 1451

Hindi grasstcl_hi.po 0 1451

Japanese grasstcl_ja.po 0 678 773

Latvian grasstcl_lv.po 0 130 1321

Marathi grasstcl_mr.po 0 1451

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSWXPY

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Czech grasswxpy_cs.po 1642 3

German grasswxpy_de.po 1617 30 11

Indonesian grasswxpy_id.po 1396

Turkish grasswxpy_tr.po 1192 42 394

Russian grasswxpy_ru.po 894 23 16

Polish grasswxpy_pl.po 792 25 117

French grasswxpy_fr.po 565 208 873

Spanish grasswxpy_es.po 383 241 314

Italian grasswxpy_it.po 332 343 982

Japanese grasswxpy_ja.po 44 379 1234

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasswxpy_el.po 0 933

This table is generated weekly.
The relevant column is 'Translated messages' as the message files do not necessarily contain all available messages of GRASS 6.

Last change: $Date: 2008-11-27 07:55:48 -0800 (Thu, 27 Nov 2008) $
$Author: neteler $