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> How do you use codepage 819, equivalent to ISO-8859-1, if such a
> codepage doesn't exist? I couldn't find such a codepage for
> DR-DOS 7.03 or MS-DOS 5.
See http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/util/. CP819 is there
along with tools to extract and load individual vga text fonts,
so that it is not necessary to use codepages at all. You can even
edit your own fonts.
> What is the function of characters 128 to 159 (decimal) in ISO-8859-1?
Undefined. Windows uses them for box drawing characters.
> DOS modem programs like TELIX, PROCOMM PLUS and TELEMATE are intended
> for connecting to a BBS, not the Internet.
Also widely used to connect to Unix hosts (shell accounts) which
definitely use ISO-LATIN-1.
> Some BBSes use upper ASCII box characters for that purpose, so they
> depend on the DOS and OS/2 standard.
With DOS-style BBS's you can just switch back to CP437.
> Minicom for Linux also shows these boxes correctly if started with l
> parameter, otherwise upper ASCII characters are f___ed up and not
> compatible with anything, including ISO-8859-1.
Depends on which version of Minicom you are using and how your system
is set up. You can also load different vga text fonts in Linux. I have
an old Latin-1 font file that I hacked for DOS that I can also use in
Linux.
Howard E.
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