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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: NTSC vs. PAL screen checking (Was Re: JRComm....)
Message-ID: <1375@faatcrl.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 90 01:43:02 GMT
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bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) writes:

>o We must be able to change the font. We have to alter the normal font
>  in order to get our national characters into the 7-bit code.

>o We must be able to use a separate keymap for the terminal package.
>  Otherwise we'll be sending 8-bit codes to a system expecting the
>  7-bit codes or using 7-bit codes on the Amiga (which expects the
>  8-bit codes)

Well, the font has *always* been user definable.  As for the keymap, I only
use RAWKEYS and open the console.device to convert them to cooked keys.  I
hope that this is sufficient for your use, is it?

>Online has a builtin conversion table that the user can customize.
>This is really a very nice solution, too bad the rest of the program
>is unusable. 

Yes, I plan on adding a set of input and output conversion tables, but since
I allow font changing and only use RAWKEYs to do key conversion, I don't
really see the need for this.  It'll be there for completeness though.

>What I really think I'd like to see is a program that lets you use the
>font of your choice along with the keymap of your choice. I mean, if
>Bill Hawes can include a keymap-command with WShell/ConMan that allows
>you to choose what keymap a specific shell should use, why can't you
>guys do something similar? It would solve a lot of problems for us
>Europeans.

Does this mean you need the application to set the keymap specifically?
I was udner the impression that the program will inherit the keymap of
the CLI that it was launched from...

>Bjorn Knutsson        / USENET: bjornk@bula.se or sunic!sics!bula!bjornk

  -jack-