Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
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> From: "Christos Tziotzis" <ctziotzis@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:59 PM
> To: "Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>
> Cc: "mint" <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table
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>> That's not exactly the problem. The greek characters or at least most of
>> them sit above the 8-bit asci table that the atari provides in the newer
>> encodings.
>
> The only way to get greek characters to work with existing software is to
> put them in the ordinary 8-bit character set. All programs expects a
> scancode (8 bit) and an ASCII value (8 bit) when a key is pressed.
> SpeedoGDOS and NVDI supports Unicode, but the application has to use this
> functionality. The only application I know that does is Papyrus. 99%
> (atleast) of TOS/MiNT applications works with 8 bit character sets.
>
>> For this to work we'd have to make an extension of the table to 16-bit.
>
> The extension is there (NVDI/SpeedoGDOS and maybe fVDI), but it's not used
> by the vast majority of applications.
>
> Jo Even
would a "mapper" work for 8bit values, one that could (dynamically?)
edit the 8bit font set, or allow "pass thru" on requesting that
character (from the mapper)

I know thats a bit "vague", as long as the idea is interpreted..

Paul