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):

Major parts of GRASS 6.4+ were, for example, 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

German grasslibs_de.po 946

Czech grasslibs_cs.po 945 1

Japanese grasslibs_ja.po 944 1 1

Vietnamese grasslibs_vi.po 944 2

Spanish grasslibs_es.po 939 2 5

Russian grasslibs_ru.po 918 20 8

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasslibs_el.po 767 41 138

Polish grasslibs_pl.po 609 33 304

Thai grasslibs_th.po 590 258 98

French grasslibs_fr.po 583 260 103

Turkish grasslibs_tr.po 463 66 417

Portuguese grasslibs_pt.po 455 305 186

Chinese grasslibs_zh.po 432 346 168

Portuguese grasslibs_pt_br.po 332 317 297

Italian grasslibs_it.po 309 345 292

Latvian grasslibs_lv.po 228 337 381

Slovenian grasslibs_sl.po 211 372 363

Arabic grasslibs_ar.po 144 331 471

Malayalam grasslibs_ml.po 120 826

Korean grasslibs_ko.po 42 197 707

Marathi grasslibs_mr.po 20 206 720

Hindi grasslibs_hi.po 0 533 413

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSMODS

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

German grassmods_de.po 6076

Japanese grassmods_ja.po 5895 59 122

Russian grassmods_ru.po 5759 227 90

Vietnamese grassmods_vi.po 5755 273 48

Thai grassmods_th.po 4613 1154 309

Czech grassmods_cs.po 4578 759 739

Spanish grassmods_es.po 4463 1206 407

Turkish grassmods_tr.po 2808 710 2558

Polish grassmods_pl.po 2294 1626 2156

French grassmods_fr.po 2021 2900 1155

Portuguese grassmods_pt.po 1346 3493 1237

Portuguese grassmods_pt_br.po 1314 3525 1237

Italian grassmods_it.po 946 2428 2702

Chinese grassmods_zh.po 906 2696 2474

Arabic grassmods_ar.po 495 2805 2776

Slovenian grassmods_sl.po 409 2932 2735

Latvian grassmods_lv.po 317 2457 3302

Greek, Modern (1453-) grassmods_el.po 266 376 5434

Marathi grassmods_mr.po 2 1544 4530

Korean grassmods_ko.po 1 1190 4885

Hindi grassmods_hi.po 0 3873 2203

This table is generated weekly.

GRASSTCL

PO-Files Translated
messages Fuzzy
translations Untranslated
messages

Japanese grasstcl_ja.po 1463

German grasstcl_de.po 1463

Czech grasstcl_cs.po 1462 1

Vietnamese grasstcl_vi.po 1460 3

Russian grasstcl_ru.po 1438 14 11

French grasstcl_fr.po 1410 38 15

Thai grasstcl_th.po 1406 41 16

Indonesian grasstcl_id.po 1404 43 16

Portuguese grasstcl_pt_br.po 1343 74 46

Polish grasstcl_pl.po 1196 85 182

Portuguese grasstcl_pt.po 1177 194 92

Italian grasstcl_it.po 1176 166 121

Turkish grasstcl_tr.po 1112 35 316

Spanish grasstcl_es.po 1058 270 135

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

German grasswxpy_de.po 1775

Vietnamese grasswxpy_vi.po 1760 8 7

Czech grasswxpy_cs.po 1659 82 34

Japanese grasswxpy_ja.po 1657 84 34

Spanish grasswxpy_es.po 1622 112 41

Italian grasswxpy_it.po 1509 59 207

Polish grasswxpy_pl.po 1498 109 168

Russian grasswxpy_ru.po 1414 252 109

Indonesian grasswxpy_id.po 1233 368 174

Turkish grasswxpy_tr.po 1100 226 449

Portuguese grasswxpy_pt.po 975 678 122

French grasswxpy_fr.po 747 251 777

Thai grasswxpy_th.po 587 60 1128

Malayalam grasswxpy_ml.po 203 34 1538

Chinese grasswxpy_zh.po 110 215 1450

Greek, Modern (1453-) grasswxpy_el.po 0 1775

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: 2010-08-31 05:12:22 -0700 (Tue, 31 Aug 2010) $
$Author: neteler $