From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro, Ansi, TTF2PCX and Umlauts Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 06:42:14 +0200 Organization: NetVision Israel Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3883EF26.C9BCB713@is.elta.co.il> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ras1-p58.rvt.netvision.net.il Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.netvision.net.il 948170525 8784 62.0.172.60 (18 Jan 2000 04:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT netvision DOT net DOT il NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jan 2000 04:42:05 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ru,hebrew To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Shawn Hargreaves wrote: > > If you are using a DOS editor, > though, you are in trouble: DOS can use many different character > layouts depending what country you are in, and Allegro doesn't know > anything about these. You could find a table to convert whatever > format you are using into Unicode, and then use the Allegro U_ASCII_CP > mode to convert all your text using that table, but I really don't > recommend this because it's very inefficient, and also won't work > correctly for other countries that use different DOS codepages. The GNU `recode' program, available from the DJGPP sites, can convert any encoding to any other encoding. It supports Unicode and all DOS codepages (well, at least the current version 3.5 does, but DJGPP sites have version 3.4, so something might be missing there).