FW: Euro in the DOS box under Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000

From: Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 05:13:20 EDT


Sarasvati materialized in my inbox and spelled these words:
> It is my sorrowful duty to report that your message
> exceeded the mail list size limitation and is rejected
> for posting.

The attachments were a DOS program and a relatively big text file: a little
bit too much stuff for the Unicode List.

Should anyone be interested, I can send the files privately.

_ Marco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cimarosti Marco
> Sent: Friday, 14 April, 2000 19.32
> To: 'Markus Scherer'; Unicode List
> Subject: RE: Euro in the DOS box under Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000
>
>
> Markus Scherer wrote:
> > on my nt4 sp5 machine, i can change to "Lucida Console" and
> > display the Euro in the dos box without changing the codepage
> > (i am on 437 here; i am pasting in from the character map
> > utility, or alt-0128).
>
> Notice: Windows NT's "DOS" box supports Unicode. The code
> page setting is used to interpret "OEM" text, but it is
> ignored if the text source is Unicode. To verify this, try
> the TYPE command with an Unicode text file (e.g., saved by
> Notepad with the "Save as Unicode" flag on).
>
> Markus Scherer wrote:
> > by the way, if all else fails, you know that on windows
> > nt/2000, you can "chcp 10000" and thus set the dos box to
> > unicode (ucs-2/utf-16)?!
>
> (It's Friday night, so I hope that this high tech mailing
> list will forgive me for the archaism that follows :-)
>
> If Markus' solution fails too, and you are on *real* DOS, and
> you have a VGA, and your screen size is 80x25 cells, and your
> cells are 8x16 pixels, the you can try a really dirt hack.
>
> Use the attached LDFNT.EXE program to change one of glyphs in
> the VGA font. Command line syntax:
>
> LDFNT MyAsciiFont
>
> where "MyAsciiFont" is a text file containing bitmaps for one
> or more glyphs, defined as "ASCII art". E.g.:
>
> 'a
> ........
> ........
> ........
> ........
> ....**..
> ...*.**.
> ..*..**.
> .**..**.
> .**..**.
> .**..**.
> .**..**.
> .**.****
> ..**..*.
> ........
> ........
> ........
>
> The other attached file, fraktur.txt, is a whole font sample
> (all 256 chars in cp 437).
>
> _ Marco
>



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