On 8/4/25 01:31, Vacek Nules via Freedos-user wrote:
AFAIK the Mazovia 1016 had the variant of the
Mazovia encoding with a złoty sign
Yes, the Mazovia computer has set the de facto standard for PL glyphs.
This codepage was referred to as "maz" back then, nowadays it is "CP
991", albeit according to Wikipedia the FreeDOS CP 991 has one very
slight difference at 0xA8 compared to the original.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazovia_encoding
When VGA became a thing then the EGAPL TSR was widely used to load MAZ
polish fonts. Microsoft had its own idea of course and did not follow
this, trying to shoehorn Polish into its 852 codepage, which was
critically received. In effect Polish programs often ended up having a
configurable codepage output.
I do not know what codepage exactly the Pravetz and other
CCCP-originating computers where using, I do not think it was CP 866.
Mateusz
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