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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <3272@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 18 Jun 91 21:15:20 GMT
References: <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> <1991Jun15.220717.20911@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1991Jun17.203508.10919@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1991Jun17.203508.10919@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
>One problem is that most US programmers have never seen a system with
>a non-US character set. They simply aren't available here (at least not
>that your average shareware programmer has access to). Not only that but

I think that help is on the way.  frisk is writeing documentation for a
device driver that should provide an Icelandic keyboard along with our
characters (but it requires VGA)

>
>I have to ask those Icelander's who denigrate us for not supporting their
>character sets, do your programs work in Japaneese? I'd bet that few do.

(BLUSH, insert a red and shamefaced smiley here :-)

But I will, in the future, use 'int' for my characters, instead of
'unsigned char'

>
>If I find that one of my programs doesn't work in Icelandic I'll try to
>fix it if you ask me and offer to test out the results. I'm not certain
>I could extend the same offer for Kanji though (maybe for Katakana).

If I can be of any help, feel free to email me.



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