On 2014-09-14 23:15, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: > > > On 2014-09-14 21:52, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: >> >> >> 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 >> > > Just checked the rom - it's been a long time since I've used a C64 with > DK rom in. > > Both upper- and lower-case "ø" and "Ø" are in the rom. > BTW I seem to remember that there existed another "thinner" vic20-like charset with danish chars in... It is possible that I have it in one of my machines - need to go through the basement. /Uffe Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-09-14 22:01:02
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