Hi, On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:25 AM, thraex <thr...@numericable.fr> wrote: > On 28/11/12 01:50, Rugxulo wrote: >> P.S. More specifically, it would be nice to know which codepage(s) and >> keyboard layouts you personally intend to use for your language. (Or >> did I miss that part?) :-) > > You did not. In fact, I just decided to give FreeDOS a try before > installing it for real someday for the sake of the good old days. I > normally use the French AZERTY layout -- for which the install process > works perfectly in FreeDOS btw.
Ah, okay. > But when I saw Turkish options, I thought I'd check them out and report it > if they didn't work. As I speak Turkish and know the Turkish QWERTY > layout the idea was to provide feedback about features that may be > less well tested than others (and learn a bit in the process). So I > fired up VirtualBox and... here I am :) Good, yes, thanks for testing. Unfortunately, I'm not sure any fixes like this are guaranteed, esp. since we're low on volunteers and thus have no concrete timelines. But it's still good to know. >> The installer is just a "best guess" type of thing, not perfect by any >> stretch. It may be trite to assume users are already familiar with >> DOS, but that's somewhat implied. > > I understand that, but OTOH the keyboard layout shouldn't have to be > guessed IMHO. If the installer provides a choice, the result probably > shouldn't need anything additional from the user. Yes, I know, but it's hard to test every (sub)option under the sun, esp. regarding (hundreds of) languages. ;-) >> http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/mode.htm >> >> But here's a partial (better?) solution: >> >> ======================================= >> set CPIDIR=%DOSDIR%\cpi >> display con=(ega,,3) >> mode con cp prep=((853) %CPIDIR%\ega.cpx) >> mode con cp prep=((,737,869) %CPIDIR%\ega5.cpx) >> mode con cp sel=%DEFAULT% >> set CPIDIR= >> >> if "%DEFAULT%"=="853" keyb us,,%DOSDIR%\keyboard.sys >> if not "%DEFAULT%"=="853" keyb gk,,%DOSDIR%\keybrd2.sys >> echo. >> echo KEYB: Ctrl-Alt-F1 to disable or Ctrl-Alt-F2 to re-enable! >> echo. >> ======================================= > > I added these lines just before the alias commands at the bottom of > autoexec.bat. Here's what I got: That was just a rough suggestion at a similar way to manually fix your own. My personal install isn't official 1.1 based, so it's a bit unorthodox. In particular, my layout isn't the same. (I'm not sure %CPIDIR% is set for them, and %DOSDIR% for me lacks "\bin\" at the end. I also have FreeDOS under VirtualBox, but it's less comfortable.) Anyways, sorry for the silly snippet, just wanted to show a better example than MODE. > Buffers allocated: 000 in TPA, 003 in XMS > Uncompressing and loading UPXed CPI (CPX) file :-). > Uncompressing and loading UPXed CPI (CPX) file :-). > MODE: Codepage was not found in CPI file > MODE select codepage 61 function failed > MODE: Specified codepage was not found in file > FreeDOS KEYB 2.01 - (c) Aitor Santamaria Merino - GNU GPL 2.0 > > C:\FDOS\keybrd2.sys: Specified file could not be opened. > > KEYB: Ctrl-Alt-F1 to disable or Ctrl-Alt-F2 to re-enable! > > Done processing startup files C:\FDCONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT It's not too hard to understand the whole idea. It's just split into a few utils with varying syntax. The real odd potential case is KEYB getting confused or refusing to load at code page switch, but even that can be overriden, I think. > Note that I installed FreeDOS 1.1 on VirtualBox 3.1.6_OSE r59338 which > itself runs on Ubuntu 10.04.4 amd64, so AUTOEXEC.BAT is the standard one > created when the keyboard layout 19 (Turkish) is chosen. Should I have > deleted something? (I see LH KEYB TR,,keybrd2.sys just on top of the > block I typed) You'll have to manually fiddle with it a bit, mine was just a rough example at slightly more powerful (complex) loading of multiple code pages from multiple files. ("gk" was Greek, which I don't grok, heh, which is a remnant of some other user I once tried to help, hence I tested it a bit for him.) Just FYI, but I dunno if 10.04 is still supported (is it?). Wasn't that Lucid? I think my Puppy Linux 5.28 is based upon that (but 32-bit only). Anyways, latest VirtualBox from upstream is 4.2.4 (though I doubt that affects you much). You could also run DOSEMU x64 if desired (multiverse?), it's very good for at least 32-bit DJGPP-ish stuff. > (btw, if translations in French or Turkish for FreeDOS would be useful, > I can happily try my best to contribute). Maybe Turkish would be nice, but I have no idea where to suggest you start. It can be overwhelming, which is probably why we don't have lots of (current) translations. Maybe just testing and playing around with Blocek editor would be a good enough way to start. P.S. Before I forget, you can edit UTF-8 (etc.) in various editors, e.g. GNU Emacs (23.1 for DJGPP), Mined (use -u and it autodetects codepage) and Blocek, etc. I'm not familiar with Turkish / Latin-5 / whatever, but I know that cp853 is the preferred "Latin-3" (variant) in FreeDOS. Unfortunately, it's not encoding compatible with ISO 8859-3, has the glyphs at different places. The "real" Latin-3 is cp913, so if that is important, you'll have to grab Kosta Kostis' ISOLATIN.CPI (isocp101.zip): http://www.kostis.net/en/index.htm (EDIT: It also says it has cp920 / ISO Latin-5 / 8859-9.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
