[Freemint-list] XaAES Russian fonts

Dima Sobolev avtandil33 at gmail.com
Tue May 9 15:32:39 MSD 2017


Dear Vincent,

Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 2:18:31 PM, you wrote:

> It should be the reason.

> I  checked  all possible XaAES keyboard layouts and all except Russian behave
> correctly.

> But - look what I found in keyboard table source:
> -------------------------------------------------

> ; The French keyboard translation table, AKP 2
> ;
> ; Unshifted

>         dc.w    $2772
>         dc.w    $0002
> ------------------------------------------------

> So - for sure - there is country ID inside. Russian source is missing,
> but maybe we can check in binary file what byte to change.

Yes,  we  can  say  that  we found the reason. In the *.tbl byte 03h is
responsible  for  country code, which will be shown in the XaAES About
page.

> OK, that was the missing piece. We have a winner, the Russian
> keyboard contains 0x20 = 32. So I'd say whoever created the tbl
> file, he must have assumed 32 as the Russian code.

Actually I created it, but don't remember which tools I used ;-)

There is byte 03h - so, Micro, please change it to 13 and voila !



Best regards,
 Dima                            mailto:avtandil33 at gmail.com




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