Let me suggest the following hypothesis: Your FreeDOS and graphical hardware is running with the HW-default code page, known as Code Page 437. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
Whereas, you're trying to display text encoded in CP850. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850 CP850, aka PC Latin 1, which is not the same as ISO Latin 1. Perhaps your keyboard is already switched to produce CP850. You probably need to run some program(s) to load the right codepage into the graphics card. I don't have a ready-made and tested recipe for you... could be something like: In config.sys: COUNTRY=055,850,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS In autoexec.bat: DISPLAY CON=(EGA,850,2) MODE CON CP PREP=(437,850) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA.CPX) MODE CON CP SEL=850 maybe also: CHCP 850 Further reading: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/cpidos/-/tree/master/DOC/CPIDOS http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/base /display.htm http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/comm and/chcp.htm http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/base /cpidos.htm http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/cnfi gsys/country.htm https://marc.info/?l=freedos-dev&m=99788711909602 (examples look more like MS-DOS than FreeDOS) Frank > > The "ã" is a very common character in Portuguese. It shows up in > words such as "não", "alçapão", and "órgão". > > The system's keyboard and layout are already configured to "br" (for > Brazilian Portuguese) and working perfectly. Other accentuated > characters display just fine. That is the case of "á", "à", "ô". > However, "ã" shows as something else entirely. Image below: > oIh6TW8.png > > How can I get FreeDOS to correctly display those characters? > > Thanks! _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
