Re: CBM International CHAROMs

 

On 2014-09-15 at 11:26:02, Anders Carlsson (anders.carlsson@sfks.se) wrote:
> SD wrote:
>  
> > when I tried to get it (ø) from the keyboard I only found the one, which
> > shows in the lowercase charset as uppercase one.
>  
> If I recall correctly, the graphic symbol for "shifted" pound is present
> with C= key on either + or - on the top row.

Yes, that's where I got it.

> When reassigning keyboard
> mapping and using replacement keys, the symbol/letter appears in the
> indended position. You might want to use both custom character set and
> custom KERNAL whenever available for the right experience, but it probably
> relies on you have positional mapping rather than symbolic mapping.
>  
> I don't know about the Danish or German mods, but one side effect with the
> Swedish mod is that at least one or a few graphic symbols become unavailable
> from the keyboard, due to moving keys around and a different keyboard
> mapping. It was rather disturbing, and in combination with some software
> that relies either on logical or positional mapping, it was fairly common to
> only install the character ROM and keep the original KERNAL ROM. You then
> lose the correct, standardized mapping and the localized letters become
> harder to type, but you get a higher degree of software compatibility.

I think it's always been a PITA for all, non-US-ASCII supported languages (meaning basically all, except the two). And not only for the 64/CBM. In general. Even the "Unicode" didn't solve the charset problems properly, before UTF-8 established itself. The keyboard problem hasn't been properly solved until today. Yes, we get used to where the characters are but it is always a striking feeling that this is an afterthought and not really how/where it should be. Especially if one needs to do some key combos a'la ZX to get one character right.

Thanks to all - I now seem to have what I needed for the Norwegian friend.
--  
SD!

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