Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?

2023-06-24 Thread Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user
On 24/06/2023 02:18, Michael Brutman via Freedos-user wrote: A centralized mapping would be nice, but then you will run into the question of how strict you want the code to be. In an ideal world, one could imagine a new nlsfunc service that answers with a best effort match from the local

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?

2023-06-23 Thread Michael Brutman via Freedos-user
I added some limited Unicode support to mTCP Telnet and mTCP IRCjr in the last release a few months ago. - I used a text file to store the mapping. That lets people add code points or make corrections if they don't like the choices I made. - The code uses the text file both ways; to

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?

2023-06-23 Thread Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. via Freedos-user
On 23/06/2023 01:02, Eric Auer wrote: PS: For all things NOT mentioned above, I expect no support for Unicode or conversions at all. I expect those to just assume an 8-bit encoding in text (and file names) matching your codepage. For the sake of completeness I will add that AMB has "some"

[Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?

2023-06-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, as part of a mail with Vacek, I made a list of apps from https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/report.html which MIGHT have some sort of Unicode and codepage awareness: By that, I mean that those apps can process input and/or output which are