Hi Paul, > mmm is code page (437 is default, 850 is updated form, 1252 for Windows)
In general, you can assume that 437 is what comes with your BIOS and graphics card BIOS while 850 is popular in DOS. Codepages of Windows are not popular in DOS :-) Maybe Mateusz or Aitor can say what the most popular codepages are: A default install comes with EGA.CPX and EGAn.CPX where n = 2 ... 10 and CPX = compressed CPI. Each CPX can contain several fonts. For example EGA.CPX would be 58880 bytes instead of 6322 bytes without (UPX) compression ;-) See also: http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/display.htm http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/mode.htm After some searching, I found this page: http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/cpidos.htm It gives a list of codepages in each font file, which summarizes as: (there are several variants of several codepages, e.g. with / without Euro currency sign, or different regional variants of codepages...) EGA: 437 US, 850/858 Latin-1 852 Eastern 853 Southern 857 Turkish EGA2: 859 French/Estonian 775 Baltic 1116-1119 Latvian/Lithuanian EGA3: 771/772 Lithuanian/Russian 855/872 Cyrillic 866/808 Russian EGA4: 61282 RusLat 30010 Moldovia 1125/848 Ukraine 1131/849 Belarus EGA5: Latin1 & 737/851/869 Greek 113 Yugoslavian 852 Eastern (omitting some numbers for the remaining exotic codepages files...) EGA6: Georgian, Abkhaz/Ossetian Armenian Azeri/Russian Cyrillic Azeri EGA7: South & Northwest RU, Volga Turkic & Finno-ugric, Tatar, Chechen EGA8: 770 773 774 775 777 778 Baltic and Lithuanian EGA9: Latin1 & 860 Portugal 861 Iceland 863 CA/FR 865 Nordic 867 Czech EGA10: Latin2 & 667 668 790 991 Polish & Mazovia 57781 Hungarian EGA11: Latin1 & 3000n 0 Saami 1 Celtic 4 Greenland 7 Latin 9 Romani EGA12: Latin1 Latin2 & Kashubian, Latin American and Mexican EGA13: Latin2 & 895 Czech Kamenicky & Kazakh Tatar Uzbek Tajik EGA14: Vietnamese Siberian Khanty Mansi Frisian Oceania EGA15: Africa (South, North/East, West, Central), Benin, Nigeria EGA16: Latin1 & 30005 Nigeria 30022 Canadian First Nations I guess you get pretty far with 858 Latin-1 (Western Europe) and 866 Cyrillic already, good to know for floppy distros :-) Cheers, Eric PS: The font files are for 8x8, 8x14 and 8x16 fixed with fonts and only a few tools in DOS, such as Blocek the Unicode aware editor, support fancy font variants in DOS, see e.g. http://laaca.sweb.cz/ PPS: Maybe the CPI directory of FreeDOS could ship with a TXT file giving a list of which fonts can be found in which CPX or CPI file? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
