Den mån 27 maj 2019 09:38David Griffith <d...@661.org> skrev: > > I'm coordinating a bunch of updates to Frotz[1], including the DOS port. > One of the big enhancements is UTF-8 support for input and output. This > would allow effortless support for accented characters and alternate > alphabets. We've tested games written for Spanish (diacritical marks) and > Russian (Cyrillic alphabet). > > So far, I've found absolutely nothing on doing UTF-8 IO on DOS. Is this > something that can be done without bogging down an original IBM PC? How > would I go about doing it? > > > [1] Z-machine interpreter for Infocom games and others. See > https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz/ > > -- > David Griffith > d...@661.org > > A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Because it intrigued me, here is a time line: MS-DOS 5 was released in 1991 UTF-8 was defined in 1993 MS-DOS 6.22 was released in 1994 About in 2002 was the first Web pages encoded in UTF-8 encountered by Google. All this according to Wikipedia.
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