Hi Eric,
I usually put a good deal of thought into such things before I implement them.
I more or less completely agree with what you suggest.
As it turns out… What I implemented is very similar to what you propose with
only a couple minor differences. Albeit, those would improve space require
Hi Jerome,
as you want to minimize disk usage beyond the already space
efficient compressed CPI format "CPX", how about this idea:
Make a list of all codepages supported by the installer and
read all fonts for those. Because most fonts will be created
from common ancestors, only modifying a few
Hi Eric,
> On Dec 17, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
>> FDI itself can switch display font’s and for reasons I don’t
>> feel like going in to at the moment, it does not use
>> the codepage system. It uses transient bitmapped text mode
>> fonts...
>
> Does that mean FD
Hi Jerome,
> FDI itself can switch display font’s and for reasons I don’t
> feel like going in to at the moment, it does not use
> the codepage system. It uses transient bitmapped text mode
> fonts...
Does that mean FDI can only work in graphics mode? If it does
work in text mode, then why does
Hi,
In regards to the installer (FDI) and boot welcome messages, the problem is not
bad strings or translations.
What is lacking is configuration and mapping from UTF-8 to a DOS codepage.
Without those, the text needs to be
down converted to the standard default DOS code page character set.
In the meantime, I had a look at the current strings file in the repo, and took
the liberty of fixing some mistakes, and re-encoding. I am attaching two
versions, one with CP857, and one with UTF8, in case something went wrong, or
TextEdit did a bad job encoding the file (and for comparison). I
Hello everyone,
Sorry to bother you about this again, but I’ve just installed FreeDOS 1.3 RC2,
and Turkish translations are not used at all during runtime, only some text
(albeit inaccurate) during installer and boot.
See attached screenshots:
Above opening text has inaccurate characters, it
