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   Area: Tech
   Date: 03-31-00 23:27
   From: Howard Eisenberger
     To: Leonard Erickson
   Subj: Re: Bad HTML.
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-=> Leonard Erickson wrote to Howard Eisenberger <=-

 LE> Where did you get a copy of CP819, and how did you install it? It'd be
 LE> *very* handy on this system!

You don't ask easy questions, do you? :-)

There are two way to use alternate character sets on an IBM-PC running DOS.

1. DOS National Language Support (Codepages).

This system uses *.cpi files. CP819 fonts are contained in
isolatin.cpi, which can be found in isocp*.zip at:
ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de:pub/doc/ISO/charsets/

2. Load desired font directly into ega/vga adapter.

....simtelnet/msdos/screen/fntcol16.zip is a collection of over 200 text mode
fonts. Here the CP881 font files are equivalent to CP819.
Individual font files can also be extracted from *.cpi
files. Various utilities can be found at the uni-erlangen
ftp site in cpi*.zip and in: ....simtelnet/msdos/screen/fntutl15.zip
....simtelnet/msdos/vga/fpman220.zip

You can also find a selection of the basic tools at:
http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/util/
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breakcpi.zip  . . . . . Extract fonts from DOS 3.3+ *.cpi files
fpman220.zip  . . . . . VGA text mode tools including load font
iso-8859.zip  . . . . . Code Pages for Latin-1 characters
keyswp12.zip  . . . . . Create user-defined keyboard for accents

For method 1., there are instructions for using installing
Codepages in iso-8859.zip along with isolatin.cpi. I don't
use this method myself.

For method 2., I use the following batch file to load the
font file for a 80x25 screen. The font files can be
extracted from isolatin.cpi using the breakcpi utility. The
two programs called in the batch file are from fpman.

- ---- iso-on.bat ----
@echo off
lh xvreset.com
vga.com font cp819.f16
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NOTE: I think the Codepages and font files mentioned here
are all standard ISO 8859-1 and do not include the MS-
Windows extensions (128-159), although I'm pretty sure that
this Codepage is available.

Hope this helps.

Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa, Canada