Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table

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

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From: "Christos Tziotzis" <ctziotzis@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:59 PM
To: "Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>
Cc: "mint" <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table


> That's not exactly the problem. The greek characters or at least most of
> them sit above the 8-bit asci table that the atari provides in the newer
> encodings.

The only way to get greek characters to work with existing software is to 
put them in the ordinary 8-bit character set. All programs expects a 
scancode (8 bit) and an ASCII value (8 bit) when a key is pressed. 
SpeedoGDOS and NVDI supports Unicode, but the application has to use this 
functionality. The only application I know that does is Papyrus. 99% 
(atleast) of TOS/MiNT applications works with 8 bit character sets.

> For this to work we'd have to make an extension of the table to 16-bit.

The extension is there (NVDI/SpeedoGDOS and maybe fVDI), but it's not used 
by the vast majority of applications.

Jo Even 


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