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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 23:23:38 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

>> From: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
>> 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

>This still allows only one character set at any given time.  For
>example, if you have a buffer in Latin-1 and another in Cyrillic,
>you'd need to switch the codepage each time you switch the buffer.
>What if you want both buffers displayed at the same time in two
>different windows?  What if you want to mix them in the same buffer?

I wasn't disagreeing with the flexibility of EMACS, only with the
blanket statement that DOS can not show the Latin-1 codepage. 

>> See:
>> "http://www.kostis.net/freeware/isocp101.zip"
>> or
>> "http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/charsets/isocp101.zip"

>Will those work in a Windows DOS box?  I doubt that.

Actually they do work if the DOS box is in full screen mode.

>learning that this won't work on Windows.  With most DJGPP users
>working mostly on Windows these days, it just didn't make sense to
>spend my time on a feature that 90% of users won't ever benefit from.

I agree with this. but for anyone who wants to take the time, plain
DOS can be set to use codepages equivalent to ISO 8859-[1-5,7,9,10].
I didn't mean to imply that this was a solution for the average user,
nor that it should be incorporated into DJGPP packages.
                             Doug
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Doug Kaufman
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