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Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table



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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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