Well thank you to both of you, very interesting thing to know.

Aitor


El lun, 4 ago 2025 a las 13:38, Vacek Nules via Freedos-user (<
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>) escribió:

> Almost precisely the same in Hungary with our
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWI-2 encoding, the local, “gracefully
> degrading” de facto standard character set against CP 852.
> Unlike Mazovia, which had multiple variants with some letters occupying
> different codepoints, at least in CWI–2’s variants only the § and Ft
> characters moved around, the latter of which I’ve already tried to get into
> Unicode partly leveraged by its presence in FreeDOS, but to no avail so
> far. (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23060r-forint-sign.pdf)
>
>
> Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> ezt
> írta (időpont: 2025. aug. 4., H 9:21):
>
>> 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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