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- ICELAND.SYS
- by Fridrik Skulason
-
- Purpose of ICELAND.SYS: To provide a simple method for testing whether
- programs work with European keyboards.
-
- It will install an Icelandic keyboard, change the font to CP 861,
- (requires VGA) and provides all the necessary country information -
- sorting order, case conversion etc, which can be obtained by INT 21H,
- functions 38H and 65H (DOS 3.3 and above)
-
- Why Icelandic ?
-
- Well, it is a bit more demanding than any other language of Western
- Europe, so any program which works with Icelandic will probably work
- anywhere else as well.
-
- (By "more demanding" I mean for example that we use 10 letters not in the
- English alphabet, many of which are not present in CP 437)
-
- To install, use a DEVICE= command to load the program from CONFIG.SYS.
-
- Comments regarding the keyboard:
-
- The key to the right of the Enter key is a "dead accent" key -
- hitting it and then A,E,I,O,U or Y will give you the corresponding
- accented character.
-
- @,{,[,],},\,~,` ^ and | must be obtained by pressing AltGr (the right
- Alt-key)+another key - AltGr+Q, AltGr+7 etc...
-
- The key to the right of '.' gives an alphabetic character: Thorn,
- which looks a bit like P, with an extra stroke at the top.
-
- The key to the right of 'L' gives an alphabetic character: AE
-
- The key to the right of '.' gives an alphabetic character: Eth,
- which looks a bit like D, with an extra stroke.
-
- The key to the right of '0' gives an alphabetic character: Oe,
- which looks like O, with two extra dots.
-
- If you attempt to use the sorting-order information returned by INT 21H,
- function 65H, the correct order should look like this:
-
- AñBCDïEÉFGHIÑJKLMNOªPQRSTUºVXYùZìÆÖ
-
- --frisk
- Fridrik Skulason
- frisk@rhi.hi.is
-