Mail Archives: opendos/2000/12/05/23:28:55
Hi Paul,
I don't know if code pages are universal or not. I happened to be tinking
about them today and remembered there are a ton of them used in Linux. There
are a lot of them used in Netware and NT as well. So you migh try checking
the Linux Documentation Project, M$ NT areas, M$ netwroking areas, and
Novell sites and see what they have. The LPD can be found on sunsite at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ or possibly in another diectory structure
for Documents. I haven't ckecked to see where it is currently located. You
can also look at any of their mirror sites like RadHat, CDROM.com and many
other sites. Linux also has a ton of keyboard tables. These should be
documented some place in the Linux docs and you should be able to get the
source files for them. Most stuff written for Linux is gcc which is the same
as DJGPP. Luckily I did not delete your message and still had it and a
search for NLS found it. At least something works right in this piece of
crap for software, OE.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthias Paul" <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 9:15 AM
Subject: Code page questions regarding WordPerfect and HP 610 printer
> 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.
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