Re: dosemu 1.1.5.7 (was Re: dosemu 1.1.5.6)

Eemeli Kantola
2003-08-23T07:21:33Z

Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Eemeli Kantola wrote:
>
>
>>If you under win9x or unix create a text file containing intl chars,
>>they appear incorrectly under dos edit, for example. This has something
>>to do with font differences between dos and windows/unix, but is anyway
>>the "preferred" behavior. However, windows somehow converts chars in
>>file names somehow that they look the same under dos and windows. Dosemu
>>seems to know nothing about that: as an example, a file named "cliché"
>>is shown as "clich<theta>" (where <theta> is a single greek theta) under
>>dosemu.
>
>
> right so this problem surfaced in 1.1.5.6 since the vfat kernel driver
> translates from codepage xxx (default=437) to codepage iso8859-1 and
> 1.1.5.6 (on VFAT) doesn't mangle short filenames.
>
> Well it turned out that this easy approach (no mangling at all on
> VFAT) wasn't feasible in all cases and that with the unicode
> infrastructure already there in several places it was not that hard to
> translate filenames from the UNIX to the DOS character set now.
>
> In my testings (and Stas' for Cyrillic) it all works so I've put up
> 1.1.5.7 at http://www.dosemu.org/testing to ask for wider testing.

Thanks, that seems to have fixed about every filename problem I had!

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