[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [MiNT] XaAES multi-language help needed
Hello,
first I appologize I still have not answered the question about font editor software I used.
It was many years ago. It could be GEM Font edit or something like that. I will try to find it out.
Dne 16.1.2011 12:18, Christos Tziotzis napsal(a):
2011/1/16 Jo Even Skarstein<joska@online.no>
It would affect a *lot* of apps, not to mention that all existing text
files written with the Atari charset would be wrong.
I think the use of UTF was discussed around 10 years ago.
Jo Even
English wouldn't be affected but all other languages will be. I believe utf
should be handled by the application that needs it (text editors, word
processors, browsers etc) and not by the OS.
I think character coding affects some parts of OS. At least VDI if we want to use UTF fonts as system fonts to display GUI of
localized applications. Other topic could be file-systems - encoding of file names. Although I am against using national
charactrs in filenames, some people use them.
The problem comes when you want the atari to interact with other computers
offline and online in a non english language. It's impossible for me to post
greek in a greek forum for example. Text files are also non interchangeable.
I am also uncertain whether using ISO encodings will actually help on that
when it comes to online activities but they will work for the exchange of
files (I have tested converting atari greek to iso through a translator
program and the conversion worked and I could read the text on my PC).
There is no problem if we meet the standard.
@Bohdan, could you check whether the ISO encoding you use works when
interacting with other computers? (sending an email to yourself and reading
it on your other computer and reading a txt you created on the atari with
your other machine would be sufficient (or tell me what happened because I
imagine you have already done that)).
Of course, that was why I started to use it. Commonly I work like this: I have all data on my Linux work station (texts in
ISO-8859-2). I connect my TT and Falcon to the Linux station by NFS. I share the data with no problems.
I cannot confirm the functionality of mails because I do not handle e-mails on Atari for years. But it should work.
But I can confirm the web - I can read Czech characters on Czech web sites in Highwire using the ISO-8859-2 fonts.
Regards
Christos
Regards,
Bohdan Milar