Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Robert Platt escribió: OK, I'll end up in a giant mess if I try to put code page detection and information into HELP. I've been looking at things all wrong. Why not use the catalogues to translate the character entities for a given language, and stop worrying about code pages altogether? If a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Platt
OK, I'll end up in a giant mess if I try to put code page detection and information into HELP. I've been looking at things all wrong. Why not use the catalogues to translate the character entities for a given language, and stop worrying about code pages altogether? If a catalogue is being used, H

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Мар-2004 13:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrique Peron) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: HP> Would it help? (Do you have a program to browse DOS fonts?) I have. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutori

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Michal H. Tyc
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Robert Platt wrote: > Is there somewhere I can find an ASCII character map > for each code page? Please try http://www.unicode.org/ Hope this helps, Michal --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Henrique Peron
Hi Robert, > Is there somewhere I can find an ASCII character map > for each code page? It would save Eric the ordeal of > sending me a transcription ;-) I have 122 codepages ready here, though I don't have a TXT file detailing their mappings. Would it help? (Do you have a program to browse DOS f

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
An addition... Robert Platt escribió: Is there somewhere I can find an ASCII character map for each code page? It would save Eric the ordeal of sending me a transcription ;-) If you can't map in general codepage to codepage, it's almost impossible to have a decent mapping from codepage (8bit, 25

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Robert Platt escribió: Help is often run when the user is having problems setting up FreeDOS. Their codepage could be incorrect. Help should be robust in such circumstances. It would be great if I could detect the codepage, rather than assume it. Is there a DOS interrupt or something that cou

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Мар-2004 17:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Platt) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RP> Help is often run when the user is having problems setting up FreeDOS. RP> Their codepage could be incorrect. Help should be robust in such RP> circumstances. It would be great if I could detect the codepage, r

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Platt
Help is often run when the user is having problems setting up FreeDOS. Their codepage could be incorrect. Help should be robust in such circumstances. It would be great if I could detect the codepage, rather than assume it. Is there a DOS interrupt or something that could do this? Kitten: as I und

[Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rob, for internationalization of HTML help with KITTEN you have to take care of TWO aspects: Kitten does not accept HTML (obviously) but does accept escape sequences like \n for a line break etc. - so you cannot use HTML entities to encode local chars like Umlauts (ä for example which is in DO