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- From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
- Subject: Re: More bugs
- Message-ID: <mortenk.105.722542427@dhhalden.no>
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- References: <mortenk.74.721866775@dhhalden.no> <1992Nov19.182139.27450@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov21.205951.18557@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:13:47 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov21.205951.18557@ugle.unit.no> nareid@due.unit.no (Helge Nareid) writes:
- >From: nareid@due.unit.no (Helge Nareid)
- >Subject: Re: More bugs
- >Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 20:59:51 GMT
- >In article <1992Nov19.182139.27450@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- >|> In article <mortenk.74.721866775@dhhalden.no> mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes:
- >|> >Here are a couple of more bugs I have experienced with OS/2+CSD :
- >|> >[Some omitted.]
- >
- >|> > - I still can't get norwegian characters in full screen dos & os/2.
- >|> >Works ok in a VDM.
- >|>
- >|> Do you have the CODEPAGE line in your CONFIG.SYS set properly?
- >
- >I've got the same problem om my work machine - Tseng video card in 1024x768x256 mode
- >but not on my home machine (standard VGA). Both machines are running (UK?) English
- >OS/2 with ServicePack installed and use codepage 865 (and yes - my CODEPAGE settings
- >are correct on both machines). The problem is a variation on the "cent-yen"-problem
- >which is so well-known to all Norwegian PC users. The norwegian character "O-slash"
- >occupies the same spaces in the 865 (Danish/Norwegian) codepage as the cent and yen
- >symbols in the 437 (USA) codepage. After the service pack was installed, we get
- >"cent-yen" in the full-screen sessions but normal behaviour in the windowed
- >sessions.
- I got it worked around in full-screen dos by using third party keyboard
- drivers (for dos). Still hav'nt fixed this in full-screen OS/2, though.
- I've tried both codepage 865 and 850.
- >
- >|> Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0g, available from
- >
- >- Helge Nareid
-