From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:15:56 +0100 Subject: Code page questions regarding WordPerfect and HP 610 printer X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <6F9BBDA2651@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------