Message from "Henrique Peron" hperon@terra.com.br Can anyone help Henri out ? CK Raju =========== I'm Henrique Peron and I'm the one in charge for keyboard layouts (to be used with Aitor Santamaría's KEYB) and codepages for FreeDOS. I'm also a beta tester for Aitor's DISPLAY and Eric Auer's MODE as well as beta tester and character designer for Mateusz Viste's FOXTYPE, which is a program that is able to type UTF-8 Unicode text files (in graphics mode) under FreeDOS. Now, I'm also collaborating with Eduardo Casino (NLSFUNC) and Blair Campbell (menus for the selection of keyboard layouts on FreeDOS installation time).

I have always wandered how did Indian computers work with DOS codepage 806 and the respective keyboard layouts for hindi, gujarati, tamil, malayalam, etc. on those days.

My intention is to provide the very same support for FreeDOS - unless there's something already done, i.e. some terminate-and-stay resident program which deals with the different alphabets like devanagri, siloti nagri, gurmukhi, gujarati and others and the keyboard layouts, specially the matras - I can't even imagine how the keyboard dealt with the cursor when it had to type matras before, after, over, under and even surrounding letters, as what seems to happen with tamil, telugu, kannada and malayalam on those old IBM/MS-DOS days.

Thanks in advance for your attention, have a nice day, Henrique Peron, Brazil

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