I'll try it and let you know. Meanwhile, let me tell you that I'll need room for 142 strings.
I explain. VISCII (Vietnamese Extended ASCII) comprehends all the set of 134 precomposed vietnamese accented letters. I made it available for FreeDOS (along with the corresponding keyboard layout) a long time ago. It is (as you can see) so huge that not only has VISCII no room for linedraw, shade, block or those few mathematical characters common on most codepages but it has to "invade" the lower half of the codepage (the regular ASCII area) and redefine the glyphs which represent 6 less used control characters in the range 00-1Fh. (Who said "less used" on those old DOS days? The vietnamese did. It is not my call. I just followed suit.) No foreign chars (from a vietnamese point-of-view) are present. There is TCVN-5712, another vietnamese encoding. It includes non-breaking space and the 5 combining diacritical marks used in vietnamese (for those who use properly tailored vietnamese text editors able to work with combining chars - or, nowadays, Mined), pushing 6 precomposed vietnamese accented letters to the 00-1Fh area. Finally, there is VPS, yet another vietnamese encoding. It includes non-breaking space, left and right single quotation marks and 5 non-vietnamese precomposed accented letters on the upper half of the encoding, pushing 8 vietnamese precomposed accented letters to the 00-1Fh area. In total, regardless of being vietnamese or not (which is irrelevant to this discussion), we have 142 characters which will need to be represented through strings because (most of them) are composed of 3 bytes each (being above Unicode's codepoint 07FFh) and a few of them are composed of 2 bytes each (above Unicode's codepoint 007Fh, below 0800h). Henrique Em 11/07/2011 18:11, Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > That should work, try it out and let me know. > There's a bug with strings that I am fixing already, though. If it > doesn't work, I'll have the 2.01 beta soon. > > Aitor > > 2011/7/9 Henrique Peron<hpe...@terra.com.br>: >> Hi all, >> >>>> Still I think UTF-8 aware KEYB and DISPLAY together with old apps >>>> are still a lot more useful than any "you always have to use 16 bit >>>> wide characters" method which would only work with new apps at all. >>> KEYB would need no changes, 2-char wide characters would be a String. >>> True that not too comfortable to write the corresponding KL layouts, >>> but still feasible. >> It means I can use !1, !2, etc... on KEY files and create strings. >> I see, according to documentation, that I can prepare up to 79 strings. >> I'd like to prepare a prototype brazilian keyboard layout and try it >> with Mined. >> >> I have just a question, Aitor - how to deal with dead keys and strings? >> Can the resulting combination point to a string? >> Just an example: >> >> 26 !C1 (...)<-- !C1 Pointing to acute-accent combinations in this case >> (brazilian keyboard) >> >> (...) >> >> [Diacritics...] >> ´ aá<-- Here is my doubt - Could I make "a!1"? >> >> [Strings...] >> !1 Bytes_related_to_á_in_UTF-8 >> >> Cheers, >> Henrique >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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 >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
