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
> 
> 
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