Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: wanted: accented capital vowels
Summary: Canadjan, eh?
Keywords: portugues, anyone?
Message-ID: <2156@geac.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 13:11:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2156
Posted: Fri Jan 22 08:11:47 1988
References: <434@ut-emx.UUCP> <829@midas.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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In article <434@ut-emx.UUCP>, kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> if/how it is possible to enter capital Vowels with an accent, other than
> A with grave accent and E with acute accent.  hints, anyone ??

In article <829@midas.UUCP> jhagen@midas.UUCP (Jarom Hagen) writes:>
>I would like to know this info too.  I always assumed that there wasn't room
>for accent marks on top of capital letters.

  My Mac is down, so this is going to be a little disjointed...

  Canadians also accent capital vowels (when writing in French), so
I had the doubtfull pleasure of rewriting a Poisonous-Computer BIOS
to support optional diacritics.
  The technique was to 
	1) select characters from the displayable set(s) to be
    replaced by accented letters,
	2) change those character's bitmaps, for both screens and a
    suite of printers,
	3) change the key decoder to return the (pseudo-ascii) when a
    selected sequence of accent-key character-key presses were detected,
	4) change the startup to enable/disable the above based on a
    configuration variable (aka an INIT),
	5) debug the *@^!%$@@ BIOS code so all of the above worked
    for two classes of programs: those which read scan codes and
    those which read (psuedo-ascii) letters.

  This is both easier and harder on a Mac: easier, since one can
replace code easier than by kludgo-patching, harder because I don't
know where to put the accented characters in the keymap. And because
I have to resedit all the fonts!
--dave
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