Hi Steve,
cp437 does not cover spanish because it needs uppercase-acute-accented
vowels (other than "É/é"), as does portuguese and many other romance
languages, such as catalan, which you mentioned. Providing "Ñ/ñ", "¡/¿",
"«/»" and "ª/º" is not enough.
Dutch is not properly handled by any MS-DOS/IBM-DOS codepage, ISO 8859-x
or any other 8-bit encoding I've seen so far because they all lack the
"IJ/ij" ligature (apart from that, there's no problem). It is encoded on
Unicode for compatibility with old character tables, therefore I assume
that there's some platform out there where a dutch keyboard layout can
type it.
Henrique
Em 19/12/2015 11:08, Steve Nickolas escreveu:
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Henrique Peron wrote:
Hi Paul,
CP437 is very weak. It only covers german, swedish and finnish. It is
only a "copy" of the table of characters available on those old CGA
cards.
Should cover Spanish and Dutch too. I think it also covers Catalan.
There's a catch here: MS-DOS only provided cp850 for western Europe;
IBM-DOS also provided cp858, which is "cp850+Euro sign", that's why it
is the official codepage for western european languages on FreeDOS.
Only starting in 1998, though.
-uso.
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