Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table

["Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>]

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From: "Christos Tziotzis" <ctziotzis@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 11:00 PM
To: "Alan Hourihane" <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>
Cc: "Paul Wratt" <paul.wratt@gmail.com>; "mint" <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table

> I will most certainly submit it. Unfortunately there are a few problems.
>
> Firstly the table does produce the greek letters but only for a limited 
> set
> of fonts, those that hold the greek characters within the 256 character 
> set.
> That means that it's unlikely that text written with it will be available 
> to
> other non atari computers. I am lucky to have fnt files that have the 
> greek
> characters on them. I think that's a limitation of GDOS. The encoding is
> that of MSDOS which has changed and I am not sure how the greek characters
> are held in newer ttf fonts or more precisely what the encoding is..

What are you trying to do? Are you trying to use a Greek keyboard layout and 
Greek characters system-wide, or do you only need it in a word processor? 
IIRC you can set up your own keyboard layout in Papyrus, have you tried 
this?

> Secondly,  Jo Even's program doesn't support dead keys. To type greek you
> need to use dead keys for accents and other symbols placed on top of 
> vowels.
> Is there some way that the dead key feature can be added?

KeyEdit doesn't support dead keys because there is no support for dead keys 
in the TOS/MiNT keyboard handler. If you need deadkeys, you must install 
CKBD (Google it). I have not used it for many years so I'm not sure how/if 
it works with recent MiNT-kernels.

Jo Even 


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