Re: [Freedos-devel] useful HTMLHELP bug findings and proposals

[Wilhelm Spiegl]

Hi Bernd, hi all,

 

thank you very very much for this update where I am waiting for more than 15 years now.

You know that I work on the help htm site of this project.

As it turns out, we are now close  to write the whole help in UTF-8 with htmlhelp AND amb in most European and American languages.

But not all Codepages are supported till now as I do not know which are really needed.

 

Till now htmlhelp the following Codepages are supported for UTF-8:

437, 737, 850, 858, 851, 852, 853, 855, 872, 857, 860, 861, 833, 866, 808, 865, 869.

 

At the moment I just try to implement CPs for Belarus and Ukraine (I found no overview for Belarus 849 -  for 1131 I found an overview and built a first version,

but is 1131 in use? (Same with Ukraine: no overview for 848 - found one for 1125 - but is it in use?)

Is CP 770 or 775 for Baltic in use?

 

Can anyone give me an example of the Franco-Canadian Alphabet a-z and A-Z in UTF-8  - ( I found the cp table, but no Unicode list)

I need it for checking as Bernd has already fixed two bad links in turkish and polish.

 

So if your DOS codepage is missing please inform me.

If necessary have a look at: https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/hhstndrd/other/cpidos.htm

or:

https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/hhstndrd/other/kpdos.htm

for existing codepages.

 

As a second, the help 1.1.0 is coming into a stadium where I have to ask you all:

 Please have a look at: https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/index.htm

a) Do I have to add a file?

b) Do I have to remove a file (e.g. xdvd2 - no GPL... etc...)

c) Are there problems with the sort order of the commands? I did not put them exactly in the main folders as describes it at gitlab.

d) Can somebody proofread the different commands? As I am no programmer I have to use the manuals or ask the programmers

or this forum - and I often get no response.

e) I mixed utils, drivers, unix tools etc. because otherwise it is almost the command even if it is in the correct sort order.

f) I added usbdos, but examples are bad and there is a comment from Berki that it may be not legal to distribute it. What to do?

g) Other ideas?

 

Thanks for help!

 

Willi

 

 

 

Sent: Friday, June 16, 2023 at 8:23 PM
From: "Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Bernd Böckmann" <bernd-free...@boeckmann.io>
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] useful HTMLHELP bug findings and proposals

The most critical bugs are fixed by me as of now. I will continue working on it to have a new release for next FreeDOS interim release.

Greetings, Bernd


> Am 16.06.2023 um 19:41 schrieb Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>:
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Our GITLAB has recently received multiple useful tickets from Bernd Böckmann:
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/3
>
> Line 43 in CP857.H is wrong, messing up a certain character.
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/4
>
> Some Turkish CP857 characters are not properly displayed.
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/5
>
> Some CP852 character is not properly converted.
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/6
>
> Ukrainian CP848 conversion is missing.
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/7
>
> Belarussian CP849 conversion is missing.
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/8
>
> Scrolling and navigation corrupts screen (we knew that).
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/9
>
> Scroll bar update broken in HELP_HTM.C line 518 (!).
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/10
>
> Scrolling slow because HELP_HTM.C line 584 has a super
> inefficient way to determine bold, italics and links :-p
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp/-/issues/11
>
> The hh_dir.h MAXFILE and MAXEXT are only 8+3, but the
> fnsplit _splitpath code would need 1+2 extra bytes of
> buffer size to prevent memory corruption!
>
> Very useful insights! I hope a HTMLHELP-affine developer
> who could fix those things and recompile saw the tickets?
>
> Thanks! Regards, Eric
>
>
>
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