Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-10 Thread Bret Johnson
Appart from turning DISPLAY into a DOS device driver and override kernel's CON, but not only IOCTL, but also write. FWIW, you don't actually need to turn DISPLAY into a device driver in order to replace/enhance CON. You can do that with a TSR also. See my USBPRINT if you want an example of

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-10 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Ok, sorry, that's what I meant. That you find the chain at the List of Lists, right? Aitor 2011/7/10 Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com: I'm curious, you check the LoL to get the pointers and override it? No, you just insert a new one with the same name in the Device Driver chain.   DOS always

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-10 Thread Bret Johnson
Ok, sorry, that's what I meant. That you find the chain at the List of Lists, right? Yes. The first Device Driver header (NUL) is in the LoL. From there, you can follow the chain (a linked list of pointers) as far as you want, and can insert/remove new headers wherever you want.

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-08 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2011/7/7 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: Still I think UTF-8 aware KEYB and DISPLAY together with old apps are still a lot more useful than any you always have to use 16 bit wide characters method which would only work with new apps at all. KEYB would need no changes, 2-char wide

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jeffrey, Would chaining interrupt 0x10 be reasonable? If I am not mistaken the FreeDOS kernel uses interrupt 0x10 function 0x0E to print characters to the screen. A TSR could be written to handle function 0x0E and pass the other functions to the BIOS. Of course. In the old days of bad

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-07 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Eric, HOWEVER, the array, int 10 and CON are all officially assuming a one byte is one character scenario so your layout is likely to get messed up when you use UTF-8 and you cannot use UTF-16 anyway. In color text modes, alternating bytes are used for character and attribute. So if you

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jeffrey, HOWEVER, the array, int 10 and CON are all officially assuming a one byte is one character scenario so your layout is likely to get messed up when you use UTF-8 and you cannot use UTF-16 anyway. In color text modes, alternating bytes are used for character and attribute. So if

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-06 Thread Rugxulo
Saluton, On 7/6/11, Henrique Peron hpe...@terra.com.br wrote: Em 05/07/2011 18:25, Rugxulo escreveu: Honestly, I very rarely use only Latin-3 (913), so please don't waste 500 hours on my account! ;-) It's very low priority. My friend, it is always a pleasure. I do hope that end-users

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-06 Thread Jeffrey
Hi I don't know much (anything) about unicode but, Right-to-left might be hard to do (I guess?), but technically as long as they can see and enter what they want, I'm sure they can get used to left-to-right. Excuse me? How can anyone type the arabic, syriac or hebrew abjads from left to

[Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-05 Thread Henrique Peron
Hi all! Saluton amiko! Before I forget, I noticed that you do use ISO codepages. I'll work on distinct packs of codepages and keyboard layouts for ISO 8859-1 ~ 16. While Unicode is huge, DOS keyboard layouts tend to be limited to Latin and Cyrillic and some other symboly which is a tiny

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/5/11, Henrique Peron hpe...@terra.com.br wrote: Before I forget, I noticed that you do use ISO codepages. I'll work on distinct packs of codepages and keyboard layouts for ISO 8859-1 ~ 16. Honestly, I very rarely use only Latin-3 (913), so please don't waste 500 hours on my account!

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-05 Thread Henrique Peron
Saluton! Em 05/07/2011 18:25, Rugxulo escreveu: Before I forget, I noticed that you do use ISO codepages. I'll work on distinct packs of codepages and keyboard layouts for ISO 8859-1 ~ 16. Honestly, I very rarely use only Latin-3 (913), so please don't waste 500 hours on my account! ;-)