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You're being vague. In your previous post, you talked about windows 98 or DOS, and now its DOS only.
I wonder, do you really mean DOS, or do you mean the DOS-box window you can get after you've started windows 98?
You still haven't said which compiler you're using.
Everything in DOS is a hack to get around some aspect of its deficiencies.
- like 640K of memory, so you use EMS or XMS or protected mode if you want more.
- the 16 bit segmented architecture limits the size of any single object to 64K
- like only 8 bits characters, so you have to fiddle with code pages to extend the range
- like no multitasking, so you're stuck to running one program at once. TSR's are one way of hacking multi-tasking
- no standardised GUI, so you have to roll your own
- little or no inherent networking capability
- no standardised access to things like printers and other common devices.
My guess would be you need to store each character as two bytes
- one byte to store the character itself
- one byte to store an identifier for the DOS code page which can represent that character.
I've no idea how you go about printing characters from multiple code pages, since I know nothing about code pages or code page flipping.
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I wonder, do you really mean DOS, or do you mean the DOS-box window you can get after you've started windows 98?
You still haven't said which compiler you're using.
Everything in DOS is a hack to get around some aspect of its deficiencies.
- like 640K of memory, so you use EMS or XMS or protected mode if you want more.
- the 16 bit segmented architecture limits the size of any single object to 64K
- like only 8 bits characters, so you have to fiddle with code pages to extend the range
- like no multitasking, so you're stuck to running one program at once. TSR's are one way of hacking multi-tasking
- no standardised GUI, so you have to roll your own
- little or no inherent networking capability
- no standardised access to things like printers and other common devices.
My guess would be you need to store each character as two bytes
- one byte to store the character itself
- one byte to store an identifier for the DOS code page which can represent that character.
I've no idea how you go about printing characters from multiple code pages, since I know nothing about code pages or code page flipping.
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I am really a newbie and trying to make a dictionary. I would be using a borland turbo c++ v3.0.
I really need help on using Unicode because of the following reasons...
1) I would have to create my own stroked font of my language which is Indian(Hindi, devanagari: to be precise).
2) My language has many characters unlike english which as 26. The real problem is that my language, unlike english, doesn't have a single letter for a character, there are some characters which have two letters.. so creating a font and implementing becomes a tedious task.
3) Most important one:
I am trying to convert the things written in english to my own language.example: "food" in my language means "khaana" and "khana" is made up of two characters "khaa" and "na"
to be clear like food is made of "f"+"o"+'o"+"d" ,
"khaana" is made of just two "khaa"+"na"....now the characters "khaa" and "na" are different obviously so I need to disply "khaana" in my own language font..so without the job at hand is getting difficult without any aid..
I have heard that Unicode has a unique code for each character and it would make it simpler to implement it in C.. I would be glad to only get the first few basic knowledge about unicode and implementing it with C and compliling it with borland turbo c++ v3.0 to make a dos based program that would run in windows with dos environment.
I really need help on using Unicode because of the following reasons...
1) I would have to create my own stroked font of my language which is Indian(Hindi, devanagari: to be precise).
2) My language has many characters unlike english which as 26. The real problem is that my language, unlike english, doesn't have a single letter for a character, there are some characters which have two letters.. so creating a font and implementing becomes a tedious task.
3) Most important one:
I am trying to convert the things written in english to my own language.example: "food" in my language means "khaana" and "khana" is made up of two characters "khaa" and "na"
to be clear like food is made of "f"+"o"+'o"+"d" ,
"khaana" is made of just two "khaa"+"na"....now the characters "khaa" and "na" are different obviously so I need to disply "khaana" in my own language font..so without the job at hand is getting difficult without any aid..
I have heard that Unicode has a unique code for each character and it would make it simpler to implement it in C.. I would be glad to only get the first few basic knowledge about unicode and implementing it with C and compliling it with borland turbo c++ v3.0 to make a dos based program that would run in windows with dos environment.
... to get the first few basic knowledge about unicode:
hth
hth
there are some documents in that tell you how TTF is constructed. Maybe you could borrow the fonts from Windows and reconstruct them in DOS in graphical mode. I don't know of any bitmapped fonts in Unicode.
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