Russian characters in a BP 7.0 real mode program

 Any idea on how to get Russian characters to the user screen and printer. I
have Russian translations for all the English
strings used in my program. I would like to keep the code and insert the Russian
characters.

Kevin Young a écrit:
>  Any idea on how to get Russian characters to the user screen and printer.
I have Russian translations for all the English
> strings used in my program. I would like to keep the code and insert the
Russian characters.
> 
> Thanks

In principle all you have to do is to use a DOS (or Windows DOS emulation) with

a Russian Codepage: I use french and the principle is the same for accented 
characters which exist in french and not in english.

For a DOS emulation in Windows 98se:

In config.sys  I have:

device=c:\windows\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
Country=033,850,c:\windows\COMMAND\country.sys

in autoexec.bat I have

mode con codepage prepare=((850) c:\windows\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850

033 is france, 850 is codepage for french
You have to find the numbers for russian,
but probably you know if you already work sometimes in russian

Maurice

-- 
        Maurice Lombardi
Laboratoire de  Spectrometrie Physique,
Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, BP87
38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex     FRANCE
Tel: 33 (0)4 76 51 47 51
Fax: 33 (0)4 76 63 54 95
mailto:Maurice.Lombardi@ujf-grenoble.fr

Thanks for your response Maurice,

  I am doing this and it works fine for text mode but
when I try to write to the screen in graphics mode I get the
extended english characters. Of course my outtext() statements
reference the characters from ascii 128-255 as this is where they are at in the
russian code page (0-127 is the standard english set). I think I have to get a
russian font file and register it with my program. I am investigating that now.
Any wisdom or thoughts?

Kevin

 
Maurice Lombardi <Maurice.Lombardi@ujf-grenoble.fr> wrote:
>
>
>Kevin Young a écrit:
>>  Any idea on how to get Russian characters to the user screen and
printer. I have Russian translations for all the English
>> strings used in my program. I would like to keep the code and insert
the Russian characters.
>> 
>> Thanks
>
>In principle all you have to do is to use a DOS (or Windows DOS emulation)
with 
>a Russian Codepage: I use french and the principle is the same for accented

>characters which exist in french and not in english.
>
>For a DOS emulation in Windows 98se:
>
>In config.sys  I have:
>
>device=c:\windows\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
>Country=033,850,c:\windows\COMMAND\country.sys
>
>in autoexec.bat I have
>
>mode con codepage prepare=((850) c:\windows\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
>mode con codepage select=850
>
>033 is france, 850 is codepage for french
>You have to find the numbers for russian,
>but probably you know if you already work sometimes in russian
>
>Maurice
>
>-- 
>        Maurice Lombardi
>Laboratoire de  Spectrometrie Physique,
>Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, BP87
>38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex     FRANCE
>Tel: 33 (0)4 76 51 47 51
>Fax: 33 (0)4 76 63 54 95
>mailto:Maurice.Lombardi@ujf-grenoble.fr
>