Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

2021-10-12 Thread E. Auer
Hi Bret, When you don't like the message, you shoot the messenger? What we're talking about here is a much larger issue than the Euro symbol -- the Euro symbol is just a specific example we can use to discuss the larger issue. I disagree. It is not unusual that text displays with weird char

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

2021-10-12 Thread Bret Johnson
> how would MKEYB detect that code point 213 represents dotless i or > €, or what the correct code point for € is in the new selected > codepage? and how about äÄáàâÁÀÂ? The same way it knows that Code Point 213 is the Euro symbol in Code Page 858 -- by the programmer (you) doing the research and

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

2021-10-12 Thread tom ehlert
>> under >> what circumstances this is relevant so we can reproduce the problem >> and it's solution. > We've already showed you the problem and how to fix it. With > MKEYB, the Euro character is not generated correctly unless the Code > Page is one where the Euro symbol is ASCII 213. This is t