Hi, On 7/5/11, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > >>>> Unicode (now at 6.0) is pretty damn huge. I don't know if... >>> >>> While Unicode is huge, DOS keyboard layouts tend to be limited to >>> Latin and Cyrillic and some other symboly which is a tiny subset. >> >> Well, determining which "subset" (for us) is the main problem. > > You could start using RECODE (DJGPP port if you like) and > convert all DOS keyboard layouts that you can find
Honestly, I'm not sure of the exact functional difference between Iconv and Recode since I never used both heavily, but I'm 99.99% sure that the Recode port is broken (literally doesn't work at all, crashes), last I checked. >>> charsets like ASCII or Latin need only 1-2 bytes while you can >>> still encode up to 31 bits: U+07FF still fits 2 bytes and all >>> 16 bit chars need only 3 bytes, the rest is very rare... I don't know, I thought I heard that a lot of Hindi and Chinese users were mad that it wasted so many bytes for them. Maybe I'm wrong (probably!) as I don't know anybody personally. BTW, that reminds me, remember that Hindi / FreeDOS distro package? It had Unicode support for Hindi !! I know you remember, and I bookmarked it somewhere (years ago). EDIT: Here it is: http://hindawi.in/en_US/faq.php > Of course CJK people might still prefer then-smaller UTF-16? Right. > Of course [DPMI] it will not work with apps which write to b800:xyz, > so trapping and redirecting that would be the bonus exercise > but I think I even did that in real mode once. Not as a real > trap but keeping 128 kB of graphics RAM from a000 to bfff on > and periodically checking b800:xyz for changes which would > then be rendered with a font as graphics. Very long ago ;-) Well, the main weird bit I was thinking of was that most DPMI hosts don't support the TSR part (optional?), and the one example I remember seeing couldn't unload and was quite "big" (relative to most tiny TSRs). :-/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
