Im vim I could do :set encoding=latin1
but this little calvin (48k) doesn’t offer such an option… (however: when opening on my mac, the backslash-codes translate to correct letters. fair enough) Th. > Am 27.05.2026 um 23:09 schrieb Ralf Quint via Freedos-user > <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
