On 19/12/2023 18:18, Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user wrote:
display con=(ega,852,1)
mode con codepage prepare ((852) C:\freedos\cpi\ega.cpx)
mode con codepage select=852
All czech-specific letters are printed correctly now.
Is this the recommended way?
Yes, it is the "official" way, as Microsoft intended. Essentially
loading the set of CP852 characters into the EGA/VGA memory, otherwise
the video hardware usually defaults to CP437.
Or is there some a bit more straightforward
approach possible, please?
Back in the day it was common in Poland to use hacky TSRs to display
Polish characters in the Mazovia format, which was a national standard
superior in many aspects to the Microsoft 852 proposition. Our Pepíci
brothers had a very similar solution, albeit the standard of course had
to be different because we use different glyphs: on your side of the
border you used the Kamenicky encoding, and there were TSRs floating
around on floppies to support Kamenicky on EGA screens, just like there
were TSRs for Mazovia on our side.
A couple of links so you can get a good idea what to look for:
http://www.cestina.cz/pocestovani/dos/system/display.html
http://www.cestina.cz/kodovani/#KEYBCS2
https://vitsoft.info/ (Podpora češtiny)
Mateusz
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