nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/16/91)
In article <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes: From article <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, by einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason): > Why? It does not allow me to type the Icelandic characters as I would > normally!!!! We have a large world here, and Iceland is a small country. If we all knew how Icelandic characters are normally entered in an Icelandic editor, more editors would provide for the entry of Icelandic characters. How about it, you non-English speakers? Give us English-speaking programmers a break and tell us what we need to do to get our programs to work on your computers... -- --russ <nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. I am leaving the employ of Clarkson as of June 30. Hopefully this email address will remain. If it doesn't, use nelson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.
frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (06/17/91)
In article <NELSON.91Jun16163116@sun.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes: >How about it, you non-English speakers? Give us English-speaking programmers >a break and tell us what we need to do to get our programs to work on your >computers... Here is a short list... 1) Don't mask the 8th bit away - even though you don't use it, it does not mean that it is not needed elsewhere. 2) If you plan to provide support for other code pages than CP 437, don't attempt to make your program aware of all the code pages - you will miss some. 3) Instead, the following information should be user-definable: a table for the toupper() function - DOS only provides this if you are using 3.0 or higer. a table for the tolower() function - not provided by DOS. a table for the isalpha() - even if a character above 127 is not alphabetic in your character set (CP 437), it does not mean it is not alphabetic anywhere else. 4) If you provide any translation between code pages, (if the program is a terminal emulator, for example) make them fully user-definable. -frisk