Hi Mateusz, basically, the difference between the many codepages suitable for russian is that they are suitable for other languages as well. cp771 and 772, for instance, are meant to assist both lithuanian and russian while cp872 and 855 are meant for serbian, macedonian and russian. As far as I know, cp866 is the most commonly used codepage for russian; cp808 was a slight IBM enhancement for russian users to have the Euro sign. With the exception of cp872 and cp855, all 3-, 4- and 5-digit cyrillic codepages present the russian letters in the same codepoints where they are found on cp866. (Please remember that while you continue to read this message.)
3-digit and 4-digit codepages available for FreeDOS exactly match their major industry counterparts. That means that, for instance, FreeDOS cp866 is identical to MS-DOS cp866 or IBM-DOS cp866. In what regards 5-digit codepages (for instance, cp61282), they present encodings not provided by the major industry on those days. Codepages on the "30000" range (cp30000 ~ cp30030) were designed by me, in accordance to an idea I discussed with Jim Hall a long time ago: FreeDOS could fill the gap left by the major industry. There are several languages which were never assisted. Among them, the official languages of all the 21 russian republics. Codepages out of that range (for instance, cp61282) are actually encodings used by programmers on those days which needed to type languages for which there was no support by the major industry as well. I have run their programs, analyzed the contents of the codepoints and encoded new codepages. cp61282, for instance, is meant to assist latvian and russian. It seems that encoding was named "RusLat" on those days. Actually, when I provided 5-digit codepages like those (I mean, out of the "30000 range"), I wanted them to be temporary. If anyone told me that there was a major-industry-official (3- or 4-digit) codepage provided by MS, IBM or anyone else to assist any language, I would have liked to receive a message detailing its encoding and its 3- (or 4-)digit CPxxxx number. If you want details, the documentation which you already browsed can tell you which codepage is meant for which language(s). If you want even more details or want to discuss suggestions, please contact me directly; my e-mail address is found on the documentation. I know that there are several languages for which I still didn't provide support; just bear in mind that, for the time being, I can only handle plain-and-simple, left-to-right alphabets requiring no special handling, such as the latin, cyrillic, greek, georgian and armenian alphabets. Henrique ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mateusz Viste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "freedos-user" <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Russian by UTF-8 in FreeDOS? Dnia środa 05 lipiec 2006 19:52, Henrique Peron napisał: > It should work for you in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: > > DISPLAY CON=(,,3) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((858,852) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA.CPX) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((,,808) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA3.CPX) > > Then, you'll type MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=858 for french or 852 for > polish > or 808 for russian. Indeed, it worked! It seems that my problem was that I was loading DISPLAY the wrong way. It could supports max. two codepages (polish and french), so when I tried to add the third (russian) it was just ignoring it. By the way, I don't knew that I could prepare several codepages, and then just selected which I needed. I usually stupidly repeated all the procedure every time I wanted to change the language (DISPLAY, PREPARE, SELECT...). Anyway, thanks a lot! I noticed that there are many various codepages for russian language in FreeDOS: 771, 772, 855, 872, 866, 808, 61282. Could someone tell me what is the difference between them, and what should I use (which one is the most popular in Russia)? Best regards, Mateusz Viste "Fox" ---------------------------------------------------- Twórcy "Strasznego filmu" przedstawiają opowieść o miłości, romantycznych porywach i tym podobnych ściemach: "Komedia romantyczna" - w kinach od 7 lipca! http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=http%3A%2F%2Fadv.reklama.wp.pl%2Fas%2Faliasdlajustyny2.html&sid=809 Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
