Hi Jerome,
german uses only the special characters: äÄ, öÖ,üÜ and ß, these are even part of CP 437.
So I think adding german should work.
You can find the characters äöü at https://fd.lod.bz/repository/latest/html/de/index.html.
I am sure ÄÖÜ will work too.
So it is enough to simply copy the german index.html to IBIBLIO to test if you can see these characters.
ä is at section disk utilities and Gerätetreiber, "Datenträger" "Gerätetreiber"
ö is at section Spiele, "können"
ü is at section Netzwerk, UNIX-artige and utilities, "nützlich" or "unterstützen".
ß can be simply replaced by "ss" within a word, everyone will understand it.
In older help files I used "ae" "oe" "ue" and "ss" instead of äöüß to avoid codepage problems.
So if you need help for adding /replacing these characters simply ask me.
Maybe French and Spanish are a little more complex, as they use some special characters.
Another question: Will Bernd worry about doslfn?
Willi
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Subject: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Repos
From: "Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Repos
Hi All,
As Jim mentioned, FDRepo v3 has been deployed to the Official Download and Update Repositories on IBIBLIO.
Mostly, it has been a successful transition from the previous version. There was a strange hiccup that prevented
using the deployment script that then required manually installing the new version. I say “weird” because the
server did not support the “pushd” command under a bash shell. Very strange.
Also, the HTTPD server will not pass non-english UTF-8 characters in the HTML files. It is not an issue with
FDRepo, the pages or the web browser. It is the HTTPD server. After a few tests, if these characters are
converted to HTML entities like “ℬ" or "ឦ” then the equivalent characters will display correctly in
a modern browser.
So for now, the official repos are limited to English. Once, I add an option to perform this mapping on servers
which require it and create the mapping files, we will turn back on the additional translations.
Also for many years (and prior to me managing the repos), the repositories have provided an ISO image that
contains the latest version of the packages in that repository. FDRepo is currently configured to only provide
an ISO for the 1.4 and latest repositories. Those ISO images are very large and obviously require a large amount
of bandwidth to provide.
Do we really need to keep supplying them?
To me, it seems like a big waste of resources. Resources we are graciously provided for free.
:-)
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As Jim mentioned, FDRepo v3 has been deployed to the Official Download and Update Repositories on IBIBLIO.
Mostly, it has been a successful transition from the previous version. There was a strange hiccup that prevented
using the deployment script that then required manually installing the new version. I say “weird” because the
server did not support the “pushd” command under a bash shell. Very strange.
Also, the HTTPD server will not pass non-english UTF-8 characters in the HTML files. It is not an issue with
FDRepo, the pages or the web browser. It is the HTTPD server. After a few tests, if these characters are
converted to HTML entities like “ℬ" or "ឦ” then the equivalent characters will display correctly in
a modern browser.
So for now, the official repos are limited to English. Once, I add an option to perform this mapping on servers
which require it and create the mapping files, we will turn back on the additional translations.
Also for many years (and prior to me managing the repos), the repositories have provided an ISO image that
contains the latest version of the packages in that repository. FDRepo is currently configured to only provide
an ISO for the 1.4 and latest repositories. Those ISO images are very large and obviously require a large amount
of bandwidth to provide.
Do we really need to keep supplying them?
To me, it seems like a big waste of resources. Resources we are graciously provided for free.
:-)
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