tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) (01/25/91)
Does anybody know of any commercially available ISO 8859 terminals? My Sun-4 running SunOS 4.1 is ISO 8859-1 compliant, but I'm wondering if dumb terminals are available, and if these other 8859 standards have been implemented: ISO familiar std. name coverage status ---- ---- -------- ------ 8859-1 Latin-1 Western Europe International Standard 8859-2 Latin-2 Eastern Europe International Standard 8859-3 Latin-3 Southern Europe International Standard 8859-4 Latin-4 Scandinavia International Standard 8859-5 Cyrillic Slavic countries Approved, not published 8859-6 Arabic Arab countries International Standard 8859-7 Greek Greece International Standard 8859-8 Hebrew Israel Approved, not published 8859-9 Latin-5 8859-3 + Turkey Proposed
DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (01/25/91)
I've written a hack that adds code pages for ISO parts 1--5 and 9 (latin's -1 thru -5 and cyrillic) to PCs with EGA or VGA display controllers running MS-DOS 3.3 or later. The Cyrillic part was written first and is sitting on SIMTEL20 as <MSDOS.SCREEN>CYRILIC2.ARC. I haven't written keyboard drivers for latin's yet, which is why they're not floating around; but folks who want to experiment with display-only :) code pages can ask me and I'll e-mail the display part to them. To correct what Bill Tuthill said, all these parts of 8859 have passed and are ISO standards, now DIS's. More parts (latin-6 and latin-7) are in the works. There is a mailing list ISO8859 on LISTSERV@APLVM.BITNET used to discuss all aspects of 8859. Dimitri Vulis CUNY GC Math
prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) (01/25/91)
In article <6556@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes: >Does anybody know of any commercially available ISO 8859 terminals? >My Sun-4 running SunOS 4.1 is ISO 8859-1 compliant, but I'm wondering >if dumb terminals are available, and if these other 8859 standards >have been implemented: DEC's VT3xx and VT4xx terminals (and their clones) implements ISO 8859/1. There may be versions of them that implements other ISO 8859 character sets as well. DEC's VT2xx terminals implements the DEC Multinational character set, which is based on an early draft of ISO 8859/1 (about 10 characters differs). -- Robert Claeson |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB | Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se Jakobsberg, Sweden | Perverse mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@encore.com Any opinions expressed herein definitely belongs to me and not to my employer.