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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Printing danish from Textcraft+ - How?
Message-ID: <491@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:57:29 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.084025.21121@imada.dk>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1990Oct9.084025.21121@imada.dk> kimberg@imada.dk (Kim Berg Hansen) writes:
>I've got a problem printing the special danish characters on my
>Nec P2200 when using Textcraft+.
>I am using the correct printerdriver and keymap, but it still wont 
>work. It prints square brackets and other characters instead.
>What to do ?

No way. Textcraft has hardcoded key translation tables built-in.
A wonderful example of how not to do it. This is the reason we 
canceled it in Germany, you simply couldn't use it correctly,
though we even had a "special German version".

In those days, 4 years ago, we used a file monitor to patch that
damned keymapping on our own, but it didn't help enough.
(Plus would have been illegal to distribute as it was altered
without permission of the original authors.)

But as far as I know, a newly updated version of this old one now
is sold as "Kindwords", with the same user interface. But I don't
know whether they fixed their keyboard problem.

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