On 5/27/2026 1:19 PM, Thomas Desi via Freedos-user wrote:
looking for text editor vi (clones) for (Free-)DOS, using the GERMAN language
keyboard/setting.
I found „Calvin“ ( https://github.com/sylvandb/calvin )
which instead of German Umlaute shows codes
example: „ü“ (u umlaut) appears as: \201 (backslash 201)
and so on for all those letters you find in the extended ascii code.
(Note: „ü“ u umlaut has ASCII decimal position 129)
Any ideas how to deal with this? ( Appearently „calvin“ is not ascii-extended
ready? )
Which vi ( vim ) would work?
Elvis is too large, needs extention, and vim 72 needs a runtime file and so on.
I just want the possibly smallest "standalone“ vi (or vi clone) …
?
best
Thomas
Any one should work, as the keyboard layout is depending on the keyboard
driver loaded (usually none for US English).
There is a vim for (Free)DOS for all I know, I used is sparingly in the
past, but then never for anything I would have bothered to use the
German Umlaute, just plain text...
If this Calvin is showing any Umlaut like this, it is a setting within
that editor....
Ralf
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