Re: using Turkish in dosemu

[Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@gantek.com>]

Hello Sergey,

thanks much for your reply!

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:24:50PM +0400, Sergey Suleymanov wrote:
>         Dosemu passed only known keys. You have to define all needed
>         keys in keymap file.

Could you please give a bit more details? Do you mean I should:

1. Load a Linux keymap generating appropriate codes in 857 encoding.

   E.g., comma key (between m and period on US keyboards) should
   generate o with diaeresis. I have "keycode 51=+148 +153" in the .kmap
   file. Is this correct? (I think that particular letter is the same in
   437).

2. Specify $_layout="load tr", where tr is the file I've sent in the
   first posting.

This setup doesn't work for me. I don't load keyb or any other keyboard
driver under DOS, if this is relevant.


>         For "ibm" charset dosemu issues \033(U escapes. If you are not
>         using native (without acm) fonts, you'll get some misplaced
>         chars.

I assume that \033(U makes the console driver output the symbol at the
specified position in the font (couldn't find anything useful via
Google. How can I search for literal strings?), doesn't it?

I'm using cp857-8x16 stolen from DOS. It does have an acm (mapping 857
characters to Unicode), but I also load the same acm, so that showcfont
outputs for the following commands are identical:

consolechars -f cp857-8x16.psf -m cp857.acm
consolechars -f cp857-8x16.psf -m straight-to-font

If I interpret what you are saying correctly, this font should work.

When I look at the file with all 256 characters in Volkov, it shows some
characters translated. And this looks as _translation_, not as "some
misplaced chars". Returning to the original example: right and left
arrows are translated to greater and less signs, so that subdir labels
in Volkov look (literally) as ">SUB-DIR<" (instead of filled triangles
around the text). Looks as if dosemu thinks that the application outputs
437, and the screen accepts 8859-1. Is it somehow related to
$_internal_char_set and $_external_char_set?


Thanks in advance,
Baurjan.

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