Hi,


>Hi!

>4-ξΟΡ-2004 17:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to

>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

>ase> Divide tools in three types:

>ase> (a) Those that implement the national settings (that is the 

>character you

>ase> use for thousand separators, etc) and codepages for the kernel 

>(filenamease> tables and such)

>ase> DISPLAY.SYS

>ase> Kernel's COUNTRY=

>    DISPLAY.SYS used only for fonts supports, so it not belongs 

>into this

>category.



Ooops... I meant COUNTRY.SYS (actually a data file)



>ase> (b) Tools that implement the codepage support for the character 

>devices:ase> DISPLAY.SYS

>ase> KEYB

>ase> PRINTER.SYS (not existing)

>ase> (c) Tools to configure the other stuff:

>ase> MODE

>ase> NLSFUNC (not existing)

>ase> CHCP

>[...]

>ase> (1) In order to save bytes to American users, codepage support 

>and such is

>ase> NOT implemented by default in kernel and/or devices. That is 

>why you need

>ase> to load them:

>    In _given_ case I not agreed: me (as Russian user) not need 

>thousandsof codepages like 932, 10878, etc. So, supporting for 

>codepages through

>loding requested information from external, independed files is good 

>idea.



It is not said that the actual data is loaded, but rather the ABILITY to switch 
codepages.



Aitor


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