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From: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs DOS (DJGPP) port converts upper-ASCII characters to ASCII 127
Date: 9 Feb 2002 06:34:02 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

>Alternatively, if you don't care about any language but German, invoke
>Emacs with the --unibyte switch.  This will leave the 8-bit characters
>intact, but they probably won't be displayed correctly (since the DOS
>terminal cannot display Latin-1 characters encoded in 8859-1).

> ...
>written.  It only matters for how text is _displayed_.  And you should
>never set it to latin-1, since the DOS terminal can only display one
>character set--the one defined by the currently installed codepage.

> ...
>characters encoded in some encoding that is totally alien to DOS.  If
>you tell Emacs it's a Latin-1 file, you will see that file correctly
>displayed, even though DOS doesn't understand Latin-1, and even though
>DOS terminals cannot display Latin-1 characters (some of the Latin-1
>glyphs are simply missing from the video ROM, others are in wrong
>places).  What other editor can pull that trick?


I believe that the comments about the ability of the DOS terminal
to display Latin-1 or Cyrillic are overstated. Certainly with a
default setup, this is true, but it is easy to add Latin-1 (codepage
819) or Cyrillic (codepage 915 = ISO 8859-5) support with the free
iso codepage package from Kosta Kostis. This requires a VGA or SVGA
display and the use of the DISPLAY.SYS driver. With this in place
the codepage can be changed on the fly for any program that allows
shelling out to DOS. See:
"http://www.kostis.net/freeware/isocp101.zip"
or
"http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/charsets/isocp101.zip"
                                Doug
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Doug Kaufman
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