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> > Unfortunately I am not quite sure what an ACM is.
>
> An ACM is "Application Charset Map" the same thing as the screen maps,
> but an ACM converts bytes to Unicode values.
>
> There must be a misunderstanding here about what a screen map is.
> and koi8r.uni is a unicode map, and contains
You've confused me.
As I understand it there are Application Charset Maps that map from an
8-bit character set to 16-bit UCS values. These are only used when the
console is not in UTF-8 mode. And there are Screen Font Maps that map
from 16-bit UCS values to font position (8 or 9 bits).
I think "unimap" and "screen map" both mean the same as "SFM", but
"SFM" is the preferred term nowadays.
You have an ACM for each 8-bit charset/encoding you might want to use,
and you have an SFM for each font. The font is then independent of the
charset/encoding.
Edmund
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