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Re: dosemu with hebrew



On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, evyatar wrote:
> >
> > >I use dosemu-1.0.2 and I want to run dos program that use hebrew.
> > >I use kbd-1.06 to load hebrew in the console and
> > >then I can write hebrew.
> > >but after I run dosemu I lose all the hebrew support.
> >
> > Dosemu runs the video card's bios' init routine, which loads the fonts
> > from the card's rom to ram, and since it's a long time since cards came
> > with a hebrew font in their rom, the bios actually overwrites the font
> > you wrote to the card with consolechars.
> >
> > There are a few possible solutions -
> > 1. you can use dos programs that load hebrew fonts (hebega.com).
> > 2. If you only use text mode, use text mode dosemu - see
> >2.1.7. Video settingd in README.txt.
> 
> If you are root you can set the font of the tty from another console (with
> the option --tty to consolechars). Does dosemu block this?

In vgacon at least (I don't know about fbcon), there are no per-vc
fonts, but if you use dosemu in graphics mode, it saves and restore it's
own fonts on vc enter/leave, in the same way that X11 and svgalib do.


-- 
Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org



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