bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik) (06/16/88)
Does anybody know which characters, in the upper 128 of the ansi set,
are generally modified to support the Czech alphabet? I want to modify
an EGA font for my PC; the upper 128 of the "standard" character set
contains everything you need to display German, French, Spanish, and
most of the Scandinavian languages, but no Slavic characters. I've seen
Hungarian PC clones in eastern Europe; how is the character set modified?
In particular, I want to replace existing character fonts if/as necessary
to provide the following Czech characters, in both upper and lowercase:
' ' ' ' ' ' v v v v v o
A E I O U Y C N R S Z U D' T'
If there's no standard, I'll just blow off a dozen or so Greek characters
and use that space, but I'm sure these characters must have standard codes.
Also, how about the Russian alphabet?
Thanks.
Bill Frolik / hplabs!hp-pcd!bill
Hewlett-Packard / Corvallis, Oregongreg@proxftl.UUCP (Gregory N. Hullender) (06/27/88)
In article <4730003@hpcvlx.HP.COM>, bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik) writes: > Does anybody know which characters, in the upper 128 of the ansi set, > are generally modified to support the Czech alphabet? I'd be interested in this, if you find out. > Also, how about the Russian alphabet? This one, I think I can help you with. I'm working with the Japanese 16-bit codes, and that set (JIS) contains full English, Greek, and Russian (both cases for all three). Anyway, the low byte of the 16-bit representation for the English characters corresponds to their ASCII values, so I'm sure the same is true of Greek and Russian. If you want a copy of this set, I'll be happy to mail it to you (can't be E-mail, of course :-)). -- ------ My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer. Greg Hullender uflorida!novavax!proxftl!greg
gordan@maccs.McMaster.CA (gordan) (07/08/88)
In article <4730003@hpcvlx.HP.COM> bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik) writes:
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-[wants to know about character sets to support the Czech alphabet]
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-If there's no standard, I'll just blow off a dozen or so Greek characters
-and use that space, but I'm sure these characters must have standard codes.
-Also, how about the Russian alphabet?
Try ISO 8859/2 for East European languages and ISO 8859/5 for Cyrillic
(note ISO 8859/1 is "ISO Latin", for Western European languages). All
of the ISO 8859 standard character sets have US ASCII as the lower half.
BTW, I have an 8 x 8 screen font for Russian Cyrillic characters, if
anyone's interested. (GEM format, so you might have to convert to something
more standard).
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Gordan Palameta
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