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From: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Help with codepages/character sets
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:19:59 +0000 (UTC)
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I write:

>Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT Invalid> writes:

>>On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:40:15 -0500 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, Bob
>>Poortinga <djgpp DOT 20 DOT bobp AT spamgourmet DOT com> wrote:

>>>Is there any method available to use Codepage 1252 (Windows-1252) or
>>>the ISO-8859-1 charset in a program compiled and linked with DJGPP?
...
>I don't know of a way to use CP1252 under DJGPP, but perhaps the font is
>out there, somewhere.

As it turns out, it is. I just came across it. You can get a raw font
file of CP1252 to use with loadfont or dfload (or convert it to a CPI
file to use with the DOS MODE command), courtesy of Norman De Forest.
"http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/cp1252.zip"
                             Doug
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Doug Kaufman
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