Eric's "looked at the sources" answer to Bernd's NLS support table,
http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9sr1/other/misc/new/NLSlist.txt (2/2005)
Entries are in same (not explained) order as in NLSlist.txt ;-).


*** Explanations for the list ***


i18n = way to support translations: cats / kitten / recompile (build)
   cat(get)s / kitten can only be used for C programs for now.
   Kitten is a smaller drop-in replacement for cats.
   -!- could use kitten in future versions.

NLS = whether country data is used for number / time / date display
   and for upcase tables, codepage settings and similar stuff
   --- means n/a, not applicable (no NLS related activities),
   -n- missing for number display, *D* missing date/time stuff,
   *C* missing for case tables, *P* missing codepage support.

Other translated things:
   HELP database (German), COUNTRY.SYS (many languages),
   CPI/CPX fonts for DISPLAY.SYS (many languages).
   Other documentation should be translated, too.

Other languages in i18n sets:
   Hungarian, Latvian, Russian, Swedish, Spanish, others.


*** The big list ***


Component	Lang.	i18n	DE  FR  NL  IT  others	NLS
-----------------------------------------------------------
Kernel		C/ASM	n/a?				yes
Sys		C	-!-				-n-
FreeCOM		C/ASM	build	old OLD yes old 1	yes (full?)
NLSFUNC		ASM	---				yes

Component	Lang.	i18n	DE  FR  NL  IT  others	NLS
-----------------------------------------------------------
NANSI.SYS	ASM	---				*P*?
APPEND		ASM	---				---
ATAPICDD.SYS	ASM	---				---?
EGA.SYS		---	---	(part of CuteMouse functionality)
EMM386		C/ASM	-!-				---
GRAFTABL	---	---	(part of DISPLAY functionality)
HIMEM		C/ASM	-!-				---?
FDXMS286	ASM	---				---
KEYB		PAS/ASM	build	???			yes
CuteMOUSE	ASM	build	yes yes yes yes 8	---
SHSUCDEX	C/ASM	-!-				---?
FDAPM (power)	ASM	---				---
PRINT/PRINTQ	ASM/C	-!-				-n-?
PRINTER.SYS	---	---	(to be in DISPLAY toolkit)
DISPLAY.SYS	ASM	---				yes
TDSK		ASM	other	(/I=... for DE / ES)	-n-
SHARE		C	-!-				---
LBACACHE	ASM	---				-n-
CDRCACHE	ASM	---				-n-

Component	Lang.	i18n	DE  FR  NL  IT  others	NLS
-----------------------------------------------------------
ASSIGN		C	build	yes			---
CHKDSK		C	-!-				-n-
DEFRAG		C/ASM	-!-	(help translateable)	-n-*C*
DISKCOMP	C	-!-				-n-
DISKCOPY	C	cats	yes     yes		yes
FDISK		C	-!-				-n-
FORMAT		C	-!-				yes (full?)
LABEL		C	-!-				---
RECOVER		C	-!-				---?
MIRROR		C	-!-				-n-
UNFORMAT	C	-!-				-n-

Component	Lang.	i18n	DE  FR  NL  IT  others	NLS
-----------------------------------------------------------
ATTRIB		C	-!-				---
DELTREE		ASM	---				---
FC		C	kitten	yes     yes yes 3	yes
FIND		C	kitten  yes     yes yes 5	yes
MORE		C	kitten  yes     yes     3	-n-
MOVE		C	-!-				---
REPLACE		C	-!-				---
SORT		C	kitten  yes     yes     2	yes
SUBST (swsubst)	C	build	yes			---
JOIN (swsubst)	C	build	yes			---
TREE		C	cats			1	---
UNDELETE	C	-!-				-n-
XCOPY		C	-!-				-n-
EDIT		C	-!-	(help is translateable)	yes

Component	Lang.	i18n	DE  FR  NL  IT  others	NLS
-----------------------------------------------------------
HELP		C/ASM	kitten	yes     yes     3	---
INSTALL		C?	kitten	???			-n-
COMPINFO	ASM/PAS	---	(also has C parts!?)	yes
CHOICE		C	kitten  yes     yes     4	*C*
DEBUG		ASM	---				---
EDLIN (edline)	C	build   yes yes yes yes 9	---
EXE2BIN		C	-!-				---
FASTHELP	C	cats	???			---
GRAPHICS	ASM	---				---
MEM		C	kitten	(to be in version 1.7)	-n-
MODE		C/ASM	-!-				yes
CALLVER		ASM	---				---


*** Bonus information ***


Source code line counts, kernel package has about 35000 lines:

chkdsk (23k), EDIT (16k), EMM386 (14k), FDISK (21k), HELP (11k),
INSIGHT debugger (17k), RECOVER (19k), VAL linker (10k),
Most others are 1000s of lines of code. Below 1000 lines are:
ATTRIB 582, BOOTEASY (of FDISK) 311, util BOOTFIX 709, CALLVER 206,
COMP 678, util COUNT (bundled with UNDELETE) 350, EXE2BIN 211,
FASTHELP 210, LABEL 747, util LWINFO drive info 356, METAKERN 925,
util MORESYS 447, PRINTQ 379, RAREAD 346 (but use DISKCOPY...),
REPLACE 540, util RUNTIME 120, SHARE 749, SORT 979, util TRCH 188,
util WHATIS 583, util WHICH (standalone version) 839.

Things with many messages:

chkdsk, diskcopy, dosfsck, emm386, fdisk, format, kernel, help,
recover, mode, undelete.

Things which are below 4k and therefore not cool to translate:

callver, (moresys), (global), (cal), exe2bin, comp, tickle, tee,
(touch), graphics (the components of it), (cmos), atapicdd,
append, display, deltree, label. Of those, only TEE, EXE2BIN,
and LABEL are written in C anyway. For example CHOICE got 1.2k
bigger in UPXed size when kitten support got added.

Good candidates for i18n support are:

attrib, (callver), comp (superseded by fc), fasthelp (?), label,
exe2bin (missing fixed-load-segment mode), printq, replace, share.