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- From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Getting the old IBM character set back (How to?)
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:00:34 GMT
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- In article <1ed942INNf56@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
- >I'd like to be able to use the *old* default character set on my PC, the
- >one with graphics characters and the like, instead of Latin-1. How do I
- >get it back (without reverting to <ugh> DOS)?
- >
- >For that matter, how would I go about making my *own* character sets?
- >
- I have patches to let each VC use its own char. set. Unfortunately,
- the patches are for 0.96 or so, and never made it into the standard
- distribution. When I finally upgrade my system, I'll upgrade the
- patches. If you're in a hurry, you may want to look at the code
- (called codepage.tar.Z -- I forget where it is on tsx, however), and
- modify it. It's not very complicated.
-
- Basically, font data is read from DOS .cp files (because I already
- have those, and they are easy to make/find). Each VC then has its own
- char. set. Currently, I am using English, Hebrew, and Cyrilic. (I
- also have hebrew.el and russian.el files for Emacs, but you have to
- know how to touch type in those languages.)
-
- -Joel
- (joel@wam.umd.edu)
-