Hi, To be fair this seems like a very good idea mainly because any barriers to FreeDOS use and acceptance should be removed and this seems like a reasonably easy thing to do as it already is there.
-Ed On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, 22:58 Vacek Nules, <vnules...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm Vacek Nules, a software developer from Hungary. I’ve also posted this > message to the *devel* mailing list, but after accidentally sending it to > the list owner they’ve referred me to the *user* list, hence I repost it > here. > I’m the author of Unicode proposal L2/23-060, which concerns the addition > of a "Ft" character representing the Hungarian forint to Unicode, in a > similar vein to CP437's peseta sign. > Although the initial opinion was supporting, acceptance of this proposal > has been stalled by some dissenting members of the Unicode Technical > Committee despite this character having been supported on many different > (mostly historic and Hungarian) computer systems, including FreeDOS, which > has a Ft sign at 0x9F in code page 57781 (Hungarian), which is currently > unmappable to Unicode because of this character missing. > I'd like to ask the community's opinion and possible endorsements to get > the UTC to accept the symbol, which is also needed for porting other DOS > software from Hungary (some still in productive non-hobby use, e.g. > point-of-sale systems). > > Thanks, > Vacek > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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