Re: CBM International CHAROMs

From: Uffe Jakobsen <uffe_at_uffe.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:52:40 +0200
Message-ID: <5415F208.9070901@uffe.org>
On 2014-09-14 21:05, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> On 2014-09-14 at 20:44:36, Uffe Jakobsen (uffe@uffe.org) wrote:
>
>> I just spoke to a friend of mine - who worked for Commodore Data A/S in
>> Denmark in the 80'es.
>>
>> He states that the Danish char rom for C64 was made by the danish
>> country service manager (first name "Knud") at Commodore Data A/S.
>>
>> It was sold by Commodore Data A/S as a official kit with stickers/labels
>> for the keyboard.
>
> Thank you, Uffe. If that's the one as
>
> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/c64/characters.901225-01-DK.bin
>
> then it's probably as "official" as it could ever get. I only wonder what is with the Ø character being only once there (capital in the lowercase set). But I don't know those languages enough (I only understand a bit due to all them being German family) to judge if this is a language specific peculiarity or there were other reasons for not having both upper and lowercase variants like with Æ and Å.
>

I suspect that they had problems doing a proper lowercase "ø" 8x8 makes 
it quite difficult. I'll have to look at it in VICE later

/Uffe





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