[Freemint-list] XaAES Russian fonts

[Dima Sobolev]

Dear Dima,

Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 12:17:18 AM, you wrote:

> Dear Jo,

> Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 11:56:26 PM, you wrote:

>> On ti., 2017-05-09 at 20:36 +0200, Thorsten Otto wrote:

>>> I think it was the right thing. That value is not only used directly, but also 
>>> stored in NVRAM. Having the both interpret it differently would be bad. And it 

>> But it was *not* interpreted differently. EmuTOS language codes was
>> first changed to match the ones used in MiNT. Then someone complained
>> about some incompatibility with Steem.

>> Steem should have been corrected, not MiNT. We are going in the wrong
>> direction when emulator features or limitations (bugs) are causing
>> problems on real hardware...

> It was not only the STeem issue.
> While  creating 2010 version of Russian TOS, we also found that with changed
> 'nationality  byte'  some  demos  were  not playing and also were some
> other issues, while with '19' all worked OK.

> That  was main reason that I tried to keep '19' for Russia everywhere,
> it started from real Atari TOS.

BTW  in  STeem  also  was  incorrect  setting  for Russia before, so we first
changed it to '19' in STeem ;-)

> And  it  was  more  reasonable to keep this settings, then follow some
> strange assignment (which content for ex. Saudi Arabia country code -
> this country never had activity in Atari-world).


>> Jo Even




> Best regards,
>  Dima                            mailto:avtandil33 at gmail.com



Best regards,
 Dima                            mailto:avtandil33 at gmail.com