Hi Russ
I've made a start - the biggest time waster for me will be to find the
most suitable equivalent Unicode character, but I'm already some way
down the road.
The actual conversion process I have code for already - and in fact the
mechanism I use is really quite neat (for me anyway)! The text editor I
use, jEdit, is able to open files in many character sets. What I do is
write a new transliteration class that is embedded in the Java virtual
machine that runs the editor and - hey presto - I am able to open files
from the Tandy and they look fine and can then be saved in UTF-8 format.
I also have some very cool ideas about wireless connectivity that I'm
hoping to explore. I've ordered some parts, if it goes anywhere I'll be
sure to share the results.
Regards, Mark.
On 08/11/15 23:06, Russ Oechslin wrote:
IF you're serious and patient about this, we might be able to help.
Thirty years ago we needed to translate TRS-ASCII code to standard
ASCII to post on bulletin boards for the newsrooms. But it will take
some time to find that stuff.
As I recall it amounts to a tedious series of IF - THEN statements
(one for every character) to filter the TRS characters and output it
(print to a file) to the standard (.txt file) which can be opened in
most any DOS/Windows edit program.
Let me know -- offline if necessary
At 04:41 PM 11/8/2015, you wrote:
HiÂ
I noticed that there are some partial unicode mappings for the
Tandy-specific characters on the following page:
http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unicode_Mappings
<http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unicode_Mappings>Â
I think it would be quite nice to be able to transfer files to a PC
and have (as close as possible) the full Tandy character preserved
via conversion to Unicode. Anyone like to second this?
As it happens I have done this sort of work before when converting
legacy APL programming files into Unicode, so it would be a fairly
straightforward problem for me to solve in this instance.
On a related note having checked the 'print' library page on the
club100 site http://www.club100.org/library/libprt.html
<http://www.club100.org/library/libprt.html> I couldn't see any
applications that attempted to allowed the fonts to be printed - was
there a specific printer model Tandy supplied that was able to print
the additional non-ascii characters?
I've had renewed interest in this and other Tandy Model T topics
today as I fixed the broken keys on my Model 200 (by opening up the
individual key switches and cleaning the internals).
Kind regards, Mark
Russ Oechslin
