Japanese Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables (Compact 2013)

3/28/2014

For the Japanese locale, Windows Embedded Compact provides several catalog items you can use to add the appropriate locale, input method (IM), keyboard, and font to your OS. For more information, see Japanese.

For more information about how to add or remove catalog items, see Create Your First OS.

Hardware and Software Requirements

• Requires an input method editor (IME). For more information, see Japanese IME 3.1 Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables or Japanese Pocket IME 2.0 Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables.

Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables

The following table shows the catalog items and associated SYSGEN variables you can use to add support for the Japanese locale to your OS.

Catalog item	SYSGEN variable	Description	Dependencies
East Asian Edit Control	SYSGEN_EDIMEFE	Provides an edit control that supports input of East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.	None.
Monotype Imaging AC3 Font Compression	SYSGEN_AC3_FONT	Supports monotype imaging AC3 font compression that compresses fonts to help reduce memory requirements. Prior to Windows Embedded Compact 2013, this technology was referred to as Agfa AC3 Font Compression. Note: AC3 font compression is not supported in XAML for Windows Embedded applications. For XAML for Windows Embedded applications, either disable AC3 font compression in the OS Design, or embed and use non-compressed font files (.ttf or .ttc) in the application. For information about embedding fonts, see Embed Fonts in a XAML for Windows Embedded Application.	Requires a Japanese font.
East Asian Word Wrap	SYSGEN_MGFE	Provides support for word wrap for East Asian languages, so that long sentences break correctly to appear in multiple lines of text.	None.
Meiryo & Meiryo UI	SYSGEN_FONTS_MEIRYO	Provides Meiryo sans serif font for Japanese script.	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE).
Meiryo Bold & Meiryo UI Bold	SYSGEN_FONTS_MEIRYOB	Provides bold Meiryo sans serif font for Japanese script.	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE).
MS Gothic & MS PGothic & MS UI Gothic	SYSGEN_FONTS_MSGOTHIC	Provides Microsoft Gothic, proportional Gothic (PGothic), and UI Gothic sans serif fonts for Japanese script.	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE).
MS Mincho & MS PMincho	SYSGEN_FONTS_MSMINCHO	Provides Microsoft Mincho and proportional Mincho (PMincho) serif font set.	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE).
All Characters List	SYSGEN_IM_ALLCHAR	Provides the All Characters List input method, an input method for character input based on a comprehensive character list.	Requires a display screen.
Kana Soft Keyboard	SYSGEN_IM_KANA	Provides support for a Kana Soft Keyboard, an on-screen keyboard that directly accepts input of Hiragana and Katakana.	Requires the Software-based Input Panel Driver catalog item. For more information, see Software-based Input Panel Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables.
Romaji/English Soft Keyboard	SYSGEN_IM_ROMA	Provides support for a Romaji/English soft keyboard, an on-screen keyboard that accepts input of the Latin alphabet.	Requires the Software-based Input Panel Driver catalog item. For more information, see Software-based Input Panel Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables.
Search by Radical	SYSGEN_IM_RADICAL	Provides a customizable sample UI that selects complex Kanji character input by searching radicals, which compose Chinese characters used in Japanese script.	Requires a touch screen.
Search by Stroke	SYSGEN_IM_STROKE	Provides a customizable sample UI that selects complex Kanji character input by searching character strokes.	Requires a touch screen.
Japanese Keyboard - (NEC)	SYSGEN_KBD_JAPANESE_NEC	Supports the keyboard layout for the Japanese locale (NEC keyboard layout).	Requires an NEC Japanese keyboard.
Japanese Keyboard - default (IBM)	SYSGEN_KBD_JAPANESE	Supports the keyboard layout for the Japanese locale (IBM keyboard layout). This is the default layout.	Requires an IBM Japanese keyboard.
Japanese	SYSGEN_NLS_JA	Provides Japanese language support, which includes the language-specific locale data (.nlx) file and registry setting in the run-time image. LCID Locale 0x0011 ja	None.
Japanese (Japan)	SYSGEN_NLS_JA_JP	Provides Japanese (Japan) language support, which includes the language-specific locale data (.nlx) file and registry setting in the run-time image. LCID Locale 0x0411 ja-JP	None.
Japanese (Japan, radical/stroke sort)	SYSGEN_NLS_JA_JP_RADSTR	Provides Japanese (Japan, radical/stroke sort) language support, which includes the language-specific locale data (.nlx) file and registry setting in the run-time image. LCID Locale 0x00040411 ja-JP-radstr	None.
CJK Sort	SYSGEN_NLS_SORTING_CJK	Provides Unicode code-point value sort for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic characters	None.

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