On 28/11/12 01:50, Rugxulo wrote: > P.S. More specifically, it would be nice to know which codepage(s) and > keyboard layouts you personally intend to use for your language. (Or > did I miss that part?) :-)
You did not. In fact, I just decided to give FreeDOS a try before installing it for real someday for the sake of the good old days. I normally use the French AZERTY layout -- for which the install process works perfectly in FreeDOS btw. But when I saw Turkish options, I thought I'd check them out and report it if they didn't work. As I speak Turkish and know the Turkish QWERTY layout the idea was to provide feedback about features that may be less well tested than others (and learn a bit in the process). So I fired up VirtualBox and... here I am :) > The installer is just a "best guess" type of thing, not perfect by any > stretch. It may be trite to assume users are already familiar with > DOS, but that's somewhat implied. I understand that, but OTOH the keyboard layout shouldn't have to be guessed IMHO. If the installer provides a choice, the result probably shouldn't need anything additional from the user. > http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/mode.htm > > But here's a partial (better?) solution: > > ======================================= > set CPIDIR=%DOSDIR%\cpi > display con=(ega,,3) > mode con cp prep=((853) %CPIDIR%\ega.cpx) > mode con cp prep=((,737,869) %CPIDIR%\ega5.cpx) > mode con cp sel=%DEFAULT% > set CPIDIR= > > if "%DEFAULT%"=="853" keyb us,,%DOSDIR%\keyboard.sys > if not "%DEFAULT%"=="853" keyb gk,,%DOSDIR%\keybrd2.sys > echo. > echo KEYB: Ctrl-Alt-F1 to disable or Ctrl-Alt-F2 to re-enable! > echo. > ======================================= I added these lines just before the alias commands at the bottom of autoexec.bat. Here's what I got: Buffers allocated: 000 in TPA, 003 in XMS Uncompressing and loading UPXed CPI (CPX) file :-). Uncompressing and loading UPXed CPI (CPX) file :-). MODE: Codepage was not found in CPI file MODE select codepage 61 function failed MODE: Specified codepage was not found in file FreeDOS KEYB 2.01 - (c) Aitor Santamaria Merino - GNU GPL 2.0 C:\FDOS\keybrd2.sys: Specified file could not be opened. KEYB: Ctrl-Alt-F1 to disable or Ctrl-Alt-F2 to re-enable! Done processing startup files C:\FDCONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT Note that I installed FreeDOS 1.1 on VirtualBox 3.1.6_OSE r59338 which itself runs on Ubuntu 10.04.4 amd64, so AUTOEXEC.BAT is the standard one created when the keyboard layout 19 (Turkish) is chosen. Should I have deleted something? (I see LH KEYB TR,,keybrd2.sys just on top of the block I typed) > Aaah, dotless i, Isildur's bane!!!! :-) Heh, that's the easy bug I file almost every time. Capital I becomes ı instead of i when there's a switch to lower case letters. I'm sure this can save lives: <http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail> 8-) As for me, I had translated an app and all the ŞIK (option, like check this box...) words became sik which is a very vulgar word in Turkish (btw, if translations in French or Turkish for FreeDOS would be useful, I can happily try my best to contribute). On 28/11/12 03:04, Henrique Peron wrote: > >> Thanks for explaining, but how do I select these codepages? (...) > Please check your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. > > Make sure there are lines like these: > > -------------------- > display con=(ega,,3) > mode con cp prepare=((853,857,858) c:\freedos\cpi\ega.cpx) > mode con cp select=xxx > keyb tr > -------------------- I added these lines just before the alias commands at the bottom of autoexec.bat (xxx was 858). I got the following error messages (some of them are probably normal messages which are not related to the issue but I just typed them anyway): Bufferes allocated: 000 in TPA, 003 in XMS MODE: File not found MODE select codepage 858 function failed MODE: Specified codepage was not found in file FreeDOS KEYB 2.01 - (c) Aitor Santamaria Merino - GNU GPL 2.0 Keyboard layout : C:\FDOS\BIN\KEYBOARD.SYS Specified file does not contain information for this layout/id Done processing startup files C:\FDCONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT > The four lines above prepare and select 3 codepages, all available on > EGA.CPX. You'll trade "xxx" in the third line for: > > • 853, if you need to type turkish — and/or esperanto. It is important to > mention, though, that codepage 853 seems to be considered obsolete on what > concerns the turkish language. (Codepage 853 is the only one which handles > esperanto.) > > • 857, if you don't need esperanto. A good thing about codepage 857 is that > it not only seems to be the preferred codepage for turkish; you'll have the > Euro sign. > > • 858, highly recommended to type in "western european" languages. I say > "recommended" instead of "needed" because you could perfectly use cp857 to > type in, say, portuguese, spanish, italian, etc., however I don't advise you > to do that. If you'd like to know why, just let me know. Heh, now I'm curious. If you have time to explain I'd happily read your explanation. > I'll do that. I use VirtualBox. ;) >> Çok teşekkürler. > Birşey değil. O_o You speak Turkish? > Should anything still not goes well as it should, please let me know. Thanks again for helping out. PS: Currently freedos.org returns an "Address Not Found" error but www.freedos.org works fine. Maybe the first URL should redirect to the working one. -- Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. 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