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 929 8 4

Vietnamese grasslibs_vi.po 927 9 5

Czech grasslibs_cs.po 921 10 10

Russian grasslibs_ru.po 920 18 3

Japanese grasslibs_ja.po 897 45

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasslibs_el.po 769 39 133

Thai grasslibs_th.po 592 256 93

French grasslibs_fr.po 585 252 96

German grasslibs_de.po 517 322 103

Polish grasslibs_pl.po 515 67 359

Turkish grasslibs_tr.po 465 65 411

Portuguese grasslibs_pt.po 457 303 181

Chinese grasslibs_zh.po 434 345 162

Portuguese grasslibs_pt_br.po 334 316 291

Italian grasslibs_it.po 292 349 300

Latvian grasslibs_lv.po 229 337 375

Slovenian grasslibs_sl.po 212 372 357

Arabic grasslibs_ar.po 144 332 465

Korean grasslibs_ko.po 42 197 702

Marathi grasslibs_mr.po 20 206 715

Hindi grasslibs_hi.po 0 532 409

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSMODS

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

German grassmods_de.po 5933 61 25

Czech grassmods_cs.po 5878 78 57

Russian grassmods_ru.po 5824 134 55

Vietnamese grassmods_vi.po 5652 296 65

Thai grassmods_th.po 4671 1073 269

Spanish grassmods_es.po 4519 1125 369

Turkish grassmods_tr.po 2836 634 2543

Polish grassmods_pl.po 2237 1736 2040

French grassmods_fr.po 2048 2834 1131

Portuguese grassmods_pt.po 1371 3445 1197

Portuguese grassmods_pt_br.po 1339 3477 1197

Japanese grassmods_ja.po 1210 4589 220

Chinese grassmods_zh.po 917 2359 2216

Italian grassmods_it.po 783 2495 2735

Arabic grassmods_ar.po 502 2751 2760

Slovenian grassmods_sl.po 411 2882 2720

Latvian grassmods_lv.po 317 2399 3297

Greek, Modern (1453-) grassmods_el.po 266 322 5425

Marathi grassmods_mr.po 2 1485 4526

Korean grassmods_ko.po 1 1125 4887

Hindi grassmods_hi.po 0 3828 2185

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSTCL

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Czech grasstcl_cs.po 1447 8 8

Russian grasstcl_ru.po 1438 14 11

Vietnamese grasstcl_vi.po 1435 15 13

French grasstcl_fr.po 1410 38 15

Thai grasstcl_th.po 1406 41 16

Indonesian grasstcl_id.po 1404 43 16

Japanese grasstcl_ja.po 1385 25 53

Portuguese grasstcl_pt_br.po 1343 74 46

Portuguese grasstcl_pt.po 1177 194 92

Italian grasstcl_it.po 1143 177 143

Polish grasstcl_pl.po 1127 101 235

Turkish grasstcl_tr.po 1112 35 316

Spanish grasstcl_es.po 1058 270 135

German grasstcl_de.po 836 348 279

Chinese grasstcl_zh.po 219 29 1215

Amharic grasstcl_am.po 174 90 1199

Slovenian grasstcl_sl.po 0 1463

Korean grasstcl_ko.po 0 1463

Arabic grasstcl_ar.po 0 1463

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasstcl_el.po 0 1463

Hindi grasstcl_hi.po 0 1463

Latvian grasstcl_lv.po 0 133 1330

Marathi grasstcl_mr.po 0 1463

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSWXPY

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Japanese grasswxpy_ja.po 1717 1

German grasswxpy_de.po 1691 1 26

Spanish grasswxpy_es.po 1685 2

Czech grasswxpy_cs.po 1550 102 35

Vietnamese grasswxpy_vi.po 1525 123 39

Russian grasswxpy_ru.po 1463 158 66

Polish grasswxpy_pl.po 1319 172 196

Italian grasswxpy_it.po 1301 10 376

Indonesian grasswxpy_id.po 1261 288 138

Turkish grasswxpy_tr.po 1140 141 406

Portuguese grasswxpy_pt.po 1071 523 38

French grasswxpy_fr.po 536 260 891

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasswxpy_el.po 0 1687

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 $