On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:50:33PM +0200, David Suna wrote: > I think this was discussed recently but I can't find it. I want to run a > Hebrew DOS application under dosemu. When I do all of the Hebrew > characters come out as question marks. When I run xdosemu the characters > come out as gibberish. What do I have to do under dosemu/xdosemu to be > able to see the Hebrew characters?
On MS-DOS, you're supposed to set the display font and the expected input charset with the MODE utility. From a short Google search, it seems that FreeDOS is only catching up now. Anyway, if you use xdosemu, the VGA font used by the virtual DOS machine might have no effect, so instead just select one of the ISO-8859-8 fonts you have (run 'xlsfonts' to list them): FONT=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-c-0-iso8859-8 xdosbox Since I have a rather outdated version of FreeDOS, I cannot confirm it actually working. -- And as long as we're completely off-topic, I've found out recently that you can print the entire range of Unicode characters in the WinNT console window (as long as its a window, not VGA full-screen), by setting the codepage to 65001 (CP_UTF8). Try it with Perl's Win32::Console::OutputCP(). Pretty neat, eh? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
