[Freedos-kernel] Getting COUNTRY.SYS done right
About country sys: Do NOT copy it from another DOS. Our font (CPI) and keyboard (KL/KEY/KC/whatever) packages show that we can do much better if we collect the information ourselves, for the languages which are used by FreeDOS people. I might even put up an online form like fill in: your country number, name of country, 1000s separator, decimal separator, select time/date format from those drop-down list, ... and drop us a note in this free form text entry field if your country has non-ASCII uppercase or sort (collate) styles. As far as I remember, we only have US and German country data around in the kernel - but that might be because the other countries are similar to either of both, and nobody missed explicit support for them yet?? Eric --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] Getting COUNTRY.SYS done right
About country sys: Do NOT copy it from another DOS. It's NOT copied! See COUNTRY.ASM in http://linux.tu-varna.acad.bg/~lig/freedos/kernel/CVSPATCH.TXT --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] Getting COUNTRY.SYS done right
Eric Auer escribió: As far as I remember, we only have US and German country data around in the kernel - but that might be because the other countries are similar to either of both, and nobody missed explicit support for them yet?? Well, the uppercasing and lowercasing tables for codepage 850 used in German are straightforward for any other country using 850 (most of western european, except noticeably Portugal and others), and straightoforward port to 858 (actually the same table). However, the collating table is particular for each country (as was noted here long time ago), mind that diaeresis (umlauts) in German may ne introduced in different positions in the dic as in other languages (and for example, the problem mentioned by Bart on Spanish language, where CH and LL are considered one single letter (although made of two characters) won't have a solution). Aitor --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
