Hebrew in windows XP for dos
Mr. J.
In DOS there are special character for hebrew.
In order to see the special codes of hebrew character,
I should open the source in the edit.com program,
or use editors of windows that supports terminal fonts.
That works fine in windows 98 and perior,
but since windows 2000 - there is a problem, that hebrew characters cannot
be seen as hebrew
(they are seen as Courier new, I suppose - includes a with two dots above it
instead of hebrew character).
What is the problem of windows 2000 and XP - can I fix the problem so I can
see normal hebrew characters (of dos = terminal font).
Can I copy the terminal font of windows 98 installation to windows 2000 (I
cannot see terminal.fon - the name is not obvious) ?
Thanks :)
Uwe Sieber
"Mr. J." wrote:
>
> Can I copy the terminal font of windows 98 installation to windows 2000 (I
> cannot see terminal.fon - the name is not obvious) ?
Yes you can. But 'Terminal' is the internal name of
the font only. The files are APP862.FON and VGA862.FON.
But if you install these file froms Win98 you may get
a confilict with the installed terminal fonts DOSAPP.FON
and VGAOEM.FON. These are for codepage 437 and includes
the same font sizes. And multiple instances of the same
font size aren't supported by Windows. Maybe you see
the hebrew chars (codepage 862) or still the latin chars
(codepage 437). The VGAxxx.FON contains the 8x12 font
only, DOSAPP or APPxxx contain all other sizes of the
'Raster Fonts'. You should decide what you need and
deinstall the unused codepage.
I've made a 10x19 font with codepage 862 that looks
better, I think. Because Windows doesn't have a 10x19 font,
there will be no conflict.
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/new862.zip
Greetings from Germany
Uwe
Mr. J.
I will check it out.
How can I install/deinstall fonts on my computer ?
If I understood you correctly :
I should deinstall VGAOEM.FON and DOSAPP.FON, and should install APP862.FON
and VGA862.FON (copied from windows 98 to font directory, I suppose).
Thanks :)
"Uwe Sieber" <ma...@uwe-sieber.de> wrote in message
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Uwe Sieber
"Mr. J." wrote:
>
> Thanks.
> I will check it out.
>
> How can I install/deinstall fonts on my computer ?
> If I understood you correctly :
> I should deinstall VGAOEM.FON and DOSAPP.FON, and should install APP862.FON
> and VGA862.FON (copied from windows 98 to font directory, I suppose).
In the Control Panel, open the Fonts section.
Here you can delete fonts as known from normal
files.
If you want to get the 8x12 size in hebrew,
delete VGAOEM.FON and install VGA862.FON.
If you want the other sizes do it with
DOSAPP and APP862.
Install new font thru the file menu:
'Install new font...'. It's not enough
to copy the font files to the Fonts folder.
Greetings from Germany
Uwe
Mr. J.
I have just deleted dosapp.fon and copy the app862.fon,
and I have tried to open hebrew text file with hebrew characters - nothing
special happens :
the character are not hebrew (i.e it has a with two dots about it instead of
hebrew character).
The problem is in full screen mode or vga mode.
Maybe there is another thing I should pay attention to.
(I didn't find any vga862.fon, and I got app862.fon from the internet -
maybe you can lead me where can I find those fonts on the internet, please).
Thanks :)
"Uwe Sieber" <ma...@uwe-sieber.de> wrote in message
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Uwe Sieber
"Mr. J." wrote:
>
> I have just deleted dosapp.fon and copy the app862.fon,
> and I have tried to open hebrew text file with hebrew characters - nothing
> special happens :
> the character are not hebrew (i.e it has a with two dots about it instead of
> hebrew character).
> The problem is in full screen mode or vga mode.
APP862.FON contains raster fonts for the DOS-Box. There
is no effect in fullscreen mode.
If you are in window mode, open the system menu of the
window -> Properties -> Font
Select 'Raster Fonts' and a size.
Greetings from Germany
Uwe