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Re: Configure country

From Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject Re: Configure country
Date 2025-10-05 10:19 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <cf57f7665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> (permalink)
References (11 earlier) <3feb83665c.Matthew@sinenomine.co.uk> <410ea2665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <5c66a31fd7Paul@sprie.nl> <89e7ab665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <5c66b66bcaPaul@sprie.nl>

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On 4 Oct 2025 as I do recall,
          Paul Sprangers  wrote:

> In article <89e7ab665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>,
>    Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Apparently in order to use Cyrillic in !Dict, as opposed to Netsurf, I
> > need to set Alphabet to Latin1 and set Keyboard Russia (as opposed to
> > UTF8 and UK)....

I think that was because in the distant past I had configured !Dict to
to Bukinist as its icon input font (that being the only one I had
managed to establish a working key-mapping for).  With Cyberbit
configured as input font I seem to be able to type into !Dict just by
switching to RussUni

(sigh:  except that having done so, I'm still getting 'The request is
not a valid UTF-8 string".  I wonder if the issue is my attempt to use
the arrow keys to edit a typo, which definitely seems to require
multiple keypresses to move past each character?  Or just that my
Russian spelling is dodgy in the first place?)

Edit:  definitely using the arrow keys to try to delete things.  I can
reproduce that.

> 
> That shouldn't be necessary at all. KeyMap produces cyrillic characters
> independent from alphabet or keyboard settings.
>
Indeed, having configured StrongED to use Cyberbit as its display text
for News mode while experimenting, I just accidentally typed a string of
Cyrillic into this text without noticing!  A feat I unfortunately seem
currently able to reproduce, though I did notice the arrow key/deletion
issues there as well... which makes sense, since the concept of 'one
character per keypress' is probably hardwired all over RISC OS.

I'm not sure using it in StrongED is a good strategy, as for some reason
I seem to be producing far more typos than normal, though I don't quite
see how the two can be connected!  (I'm not used to using an outline
font/bar cursor in StrongED at all.)

> > Having successfully typed in a string to the reduced Dict window and
> > pressed Return, I get a window popping up (with a jumbled Latin-1 title,
> > presumably because, as I've noticed with Netsurf, RISC OS doesn't
> > support non-Latin characters in title bars) which says
> 
> > 1 definition found at pkgs4unix.org
> 
> > From ÁÛÞÒÐàì áØÝÞÝØÜÞÒ ½.°ÑàÐÜÞÒÐ [abr1w]:
> 
> Have you configured a unicode font in Choices, under Bodytext? If so, it
> should show the suffix \EUTF8 automatically. It won't do so with Bukinist.
> 
Bodytext is configured to Cyberbit\EUTF8.

But Bold and Italic are still set to Homerton\UTF8, which may be
 the problem here...

Ah, that's better - I tried using DejaVu for both, and now get my Froms
in valid Cyrillic.   :-)

-- 
Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from

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Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-09-08 23:14 +0100
  Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-09-09 09:39 +0100
    Re: Configure country Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-09-12 10:02 +0200
      Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-09-12 13:57 +0200
      Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-09-12 15:26 +0100
        Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-09-29 17:13 +0100
          Re: Configure country Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-09-30 11:36 +0200
            Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-09-30 19:18 +0100
              Re: Configure country Paul Stewart <phorefaux@gmail.com> - 2025-09-30 20:38 +0100
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-09-30 22:40 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Stewart <paulstewart@phawfaux.co.uk> - 2025-10-03 22:26 +0100
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 01:02 +0100
              Re: Configure country J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-09-30 20:00 +0000
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-09-30 22:42 +0100
                Re: Configure country Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-10-01 10:26 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 01:20 +0100
                Re: Configure country Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-10-04 10:16 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 13:41 +0100
                Re: Configure country Sniffer <sniffer@dewberryfields.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 14:50 +0100
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 18:08 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-04 19:51 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 20:27 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-04 12:17 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 13:19 +0100
                Re: Configure country Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 13:18 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-04 14:27 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 18:04 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-04 19:47 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 20:23 +0100
                Re: Configure country druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-10-04 20:40 +0100
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 18:50 +0100
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 18:47 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-04 19:59 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 20:35 +0100
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 21:12 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-04 23:33 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-05 10:30 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-05 12:40 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-05 12:46 +0100
                Re: Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-05 17:54 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-05 13:27 +0100
                Configure country Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2025-10-04 23:30 +0200
                Re: Configure country Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-10-05 10:19 +0100

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