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From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Supporting international character sets
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Date: 22 Oct 90 18:18:17 GMT
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I would like to know about supporting international character sets in
an MS-DOS based application.  Is there a document that covers this?

My MS-DOS manual has some charts for some character sets, and I don't
fully understand how they are used.  For example, in the Norwegian
character set, values 0 through 127 are regular ASCII and values 128
through 255 give the alternate characters, e.g. 132 is lower case 'a'
with umlaut.  Does this mean that when the user hits his key marked
with that letter than the application thinks he hit an ASCII 132?  What
about scan codes for these keyboards?  Are charts available?  Or are
the keyboards the same with different key caps?

Thanks.
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