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- From: ddawson@mothra.syr.EDU (Dick Dawson)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.013554.521@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <1992Dec14.044314.10327@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1gi57dEINN2p7@uni-erlangen.de> <1992Dec14.161106.8111@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 01:35:54 EST
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Dec14.161106.8111@klaava.Helsinki.FI> olounela@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Olli Lounela) writes:
- >In article <1gi57dEINN2p7@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
- >>Since MS-DOS 3.3, each PC has a code page 850 supported by it's DOS.
- >>This code page contains ALL Latin 1 characters (that was the reason, why
- >>it has been introduced), but with other codes than in ISO 8859-1, in order to
- >>stay compatible with the old traditional IBM PC code page 437 which is
- >>supported in hardware by even every CGA card.
- >
- >This is true. However, a sad fact is that not all programs understand
- >about code pages, a most notable example being dBase IV. Thus, I've
- >been forced (well, almost anyway :-) to use page 437 and stomp all
- >country specificisms onto it. No, I'm not going into specifics, just to
- >spare you from the horrors.
- >
- >(Yes, I am a CP maintenance person, and getting more and more severe
- >symptoms all the time...)
- >
- >--
- > Olli, 3 dan
- >
- >E-mail: olounela@cc.helsinki.fi ! .sig still under construction.
- >Blame me only for any opinions expressed. ! Never you mind, I don't either.
-
-
- Further problem: I haven't found any way to get to any useful code
- pages from any application, esp where needed, eg: in a text editor.
- Sure, I can re install moststupiddos for another country. Therefore
- trashing my whole file system. What I need is a switch on the fly
- system, or, better, European characters available at any time by some
- simple key combination.
-
- Any help available?
-
- No moststupidwindows please.
-
- Dick ddawson@mailbox.syr.edu
-