On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 21:19, E. Auer <[email protected]> wrote: > > By definition, anything above 127 is not ASCII, so it will depend > on the codepage. Still, it is extremely rare that people use more > than one codepage on the same system AND have identical characters > with different byte values depending on which codepage they use AND > have keyboard drivers which support both BUT want to switch on the > fly instead of using a boot menu option or a simple batch script to > go to one of the codepage/layout combinations.
Agreed! > The real solution for the whole mess would probably be to use > Unicode and graphical fonts with a few 10000 or more glyphs, > but that would also be a very unlikely choice for DOS users ;-) Yeah, no. :-) > So while I can confirm that it is possible to design a problem to > which your plan would be a solution, I still have big problems with > the question "Will any user apart from yourself need anything even > remotely as flexible as your planned inter-driver config signals?" Also agreed. A question: Does the old MS-style [ [CONFIG.SYS] country=044,437,c:\dos\country.sys [AUTOEXEC.BAT] keyb uk,437,c:\dos\keyboard.sys ] ... config still work? If not, would it work if the files were copied from MS-DOS or DR-DOS or something? If someone requires this level of configurability, then I guess it's necessary functionality. Back when I did DOS tech support in a Swedish stockbroker in the early 1990s, I had one Norwegian user. For them, I had to configure the Norwegian codepage and Norwegian keyboard layout, because PC ANSI had the letters å and æ that Norwegian needs, but not ø. (Instead it has the Swedish letters ä and ö.) The Norwegian codepage redefines the ¥ symbol to be ø. (And something else for Ø I suppose, but I forget after nearly 30 years.) So you couldn't write about amounts in Japanese Yen in Norwegian (!). A decade later I was engaged to a Norwegian and learned to speak the language at a basic level. One letter may not seem like much but it was a big deal for about 10 million people. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
