From:	"Matthias Paul" <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:15:56 +0100
Subject:	Code page questions regarding WordPerfect and HP 610 printer
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Hi,

Some of you might know, that I'm deeply into NLS issues for a number
of years and that I am preparing a universal code page library 
for DR-DOS and FreeDOS (and maybe Linux).

In a friend's HP Deskjet 610 manual, I found a hint on a supported 
code page which is unknown to me:

 PC-858

I couldn't find any info on this at Unicode, IBM CDRA, DUUG, 
Princetown, HP, etc. Does anybody know any details regarding
code page 858? I would need to know:

- Name of the code page
- Country where it is used
- Glyph chart or mapping table
- the standard it follows
- also implemented with other HP printers?
- control sequence how to activate it (so I can print out 
  a chart myself and see).

On a different note, I found a notice I made a few years back 
regarding a number of non-standard code pages somehow supported 
by WordPerfect for DOS (I found this note in my NEC Pinwriter 
folder, so this might be related to NEC drivers somehow...):

 8510 Greek (Alternate)
 8600 Portuguese (Brazil)
 895  Tjekia (Kamenicky) 
 899  Cyrillic
 8990 Cyrillic (Accented Russian vowels)

The problem is, I don't know the source of this info any more...
Maybe some of the WordPerfect experts are listening and know.
A few more notes (in case this helps someone to remember):

- Code page 895 (Czech "Kamenicti") is also supported by one of
  ARACHNE's APMs (and by my NECPINW.CPI 2.06), although IBM CDRA 
  level 2 assigns a Japanese code page to this ID!
  
- Code pages 8510, 8600 and 8990 are clearly WordPerfect specific 
  variants of code pages 851, 860, and 899 (851 and 860 are standard 
  code pages, but 899 is non-standard)
  
As for the 858 code page, to implement them, I would need charts, 
mapping tables, and the actual standards, they follow. (I do have
charts of the 12 character sets supported by WordPerfect, but this
is not the same as code pages...)

I would very much appreciate your help, thanks.

 Matthias
 
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