---------- Původní e-mail ----------Od: Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user <
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Kopie: Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr>
Datum: 19. 12. 2023 21:46:02
Předmět: Re: [Freedos-user] Codepage and keyboard setting for Czech language
"On 19/12/2023 18:18, Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user wrote:
> display con=(ega,852,1)
> mode con codepage prepare ((852) C:\freedos\cpi\ega.cpx)
> mode con codepage select=852
>
> All czech-specific letters are printed correctly now.
>
> Is this the recommended way?

Yes, it is the "official" way, as Microsoft intended. Essentially
loading the set of CP852 characters into the EGA/VGA memory, otherwise
the video hardware usually defaults to CP437.
"



Thanks! Now I also noticed these commands from above are also part of
FDAUTO.BAT. I should have checked it earlier.


 
"
> Or is there some a bit more straightforward
> approach possible, please?

Back in the day it was common in Poland to use hacky TSRs to display
Polish characters in the Mazovia format, which was a national standard
superior in many aspects to the Microsoft 852 proposition. Our Pepíci
brothers had a very similar solution, albeit the standard of course had 
to be different because we use different glyphs: on your side of the
border you used the Kamenicky encoding, and there were TSRs floating
around on floppies to support Kamenicky on EGA screens, just like there 
were TSRs for Mazovia on our side.
"



Ah yeah, Kamenicky! For me, this is a part of history I don't really
remember. I mean I am (somehow) aware about these things existed, but that's
it. When I was growing up, the "big thing" regarding codepages was cp1250 vs
iso 8859-2, and soon utf-8. The time I spent with any type of DOS in the 
past was actually quite short, so all the aspects of FreeDOS project are 
currently very new to me (and I find it to be factinating).


 
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A couple of links so you can get a good idea what to look for:

http://www.cestina.cz/pocestovani/dos/system/display.html
http://www.cestina.cz/kodovani/#KEYBCS2
https://vitsoft.info/ (Podpora češtiny)
"



Thanks for the links! I will check them out.




Lukas


 
"

Mateusz


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