Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harriet Bazley Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Configure country Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:19:31 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: <6bb256595c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <42f78f595c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <2c10185b5c.jmb@jmc.bruck.orange.fr> <563006645c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <65bb65645c.jmb@jmc.bruck.orange.fr> <128d95645c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <1c449e645c.john@user.orpheusmail.co.uk> <141de3645c.jmb@jmc.bruck.orange.fr> <912342665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <3feb83665c.Matthew@sinenomine.co.uk> <410ea2665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <5c66a31fd7Paul@sprie.nl> <89e7ab665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <5c66b66bcaPaul@sprie.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:33:44 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a97dd596dc80c8d827dc1adfdac4eccc"; logging-data="3406601"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+4ZCvES74sh8Y7XQ/x/Ba8cHoFw3jXx8=" User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/8.04 (MsgServe/8.04) (RISC-OS/5.31) NewsHound/v1.53-32 RC1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MwX+OCis1z80atDMCENu8beyZaM= X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:21720 On 4 Oct 2025 as I do recall, Paul Sprangers wrote: > In article <89e7ab665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>, > Harriet Bazley 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