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- From: ddawson@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Dick Dawson)
- Subject: Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.005656.25514@newstand.syr.edu>
- References: <1gi57dEINN2p7@uni-erlangen.de> <1992Dec14.161106.8111@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan3.013554.521@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:56:56 EST
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- >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.
-
- Thanks, all around... Since I posted this request I've gotten
- several helpful responses.
-
- In msdos 5.0, there is a file KEYB.COM that will invoke the keyboard
- layout and appropriate code page for one country other than the
- installed country. <alt><F1> and <alt><F2> will toggle the two setups
- while in Wordstar, at least. This might not be available in
- Wordperfect as it already assigns <alt><Fn> to other functions. This
- begins to resolve some of my needs although there are bugs. The
- settings for Norway and for Denmark to not yield o-slash or O-slash;
- they provide a c with broken verticle bar (cents sign) and a Y with
- double cross bars, probably a yen sign. This might be a glitch in my
- video card. But at least I've got a start. Thanks again for the
- help.
-
- Another interesting bit: Some news postings have various punctuations
- in the places of Scandinavian characters that do not exist in the
- American alphabet. I don't remember the equivalences. They always
- show as the puncutations, curly braces, vertical bar, etc, on my
- terminals and on the Xerox 4075 laser printer I usually use. No
- surprise, as the data links at Syracuse Univ. are all 7bit. Except,
- apparently to a HP Laserjet/Postscript printer... where the actual
- Scandinavian characters appear, about half of the time. I'm guessing:
- some writers are substituting US punctuations and probably are on
- machines that can't generate Scandinavian characters but others are
- apparently using machines that actually do create Scandinavian
- characters and are sending them in postings; they appear as US
- punctuations when the high bit is stripped.
-
- I'm still after the ISO 16bit (I hope) _standard_.
-
- Dick ddawson@mailbox.syr.edu
-