[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS code page Unicode compatibility

2023-06-12 Thread Vacek Nules
Hi everyone, I'm Vacek Nules, a software developer from Hungary and the author of Unicode proposal L2/23-060, which concerns the addition of a "Ft" character representing the Hungarian forint to Unicode, in a similar vein to CP437's peseta sign. Although the initial opinion was supporting, accepta

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS code page Unicode compatibility

2023-07-02 Thread Vacek Nules via Freedos-devel
There is no thing as a “Hungarian florin”; some versions of *recode* have “Hungarian florinth” which is also non-existent as well. This must come from a confusion between the names “florin” and “forint” which are actual cognates. The ƒ sign (U+0192) has no meaning in Hungarian, the fillér’s symbol

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS code page Unicode compatibility

2023-07-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi! If you’re interested about the whole forint sign issue, read my Unicode proposal and its follow-up: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23060r-forint-sign.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/ ... -forint-sign-follow-up.pdf The way in which the follow-up quotes me misses out on quite a few