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| From | Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: Configure country |
| Date | 2025-10-04 10:16 +0200 |
| Organization | Jean-Michel |
| Message-ID | <7abf6d665c.jmb@jmc.bruck.orange.fr> (permalink) |
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In message <912342665c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> On 1 Oct 2025 as I do recall,
> Jean-Michel wrote:
> [snip]
>> By changing the keyboard in Configure Keyboard, we change Country and
>> therefore the keyboard.
>> From PRM3/p780:
>> "Remember that you should normally only need to change the country setting
>> as this will also change the keyboard."
>> The Country Russia command line is enough to use the keyboard with
>> !Netsurf
> Unfortunately for me it apparently isn't, because I don't get the right
> characters when I press the appropriate keys.
You have to press alt (left)+ shift otherwise you have a US keyboard
> Also, I suspect that any website into which you try to enter Cyrillic
> probably wouldn't recognise RISC OS 'Cyrillic encoding' but would expect
> Unicode of some flavour, but I haven't even managed to get that far....
You must be right.
>> N.B.
>> I discovered this morning that you could have Cyrillic characters in
>> Stronged, just choose in the Panelfont: System
>> Change with configure keyboard to russia. You need to use shift + alt to
>> get cyrillic characters otherwise it will be a US keyboard.
> At the moment (after typing *Country Russia) I don't get any visible
> characters at all with Bitmap: System font set, and get Latin-1
> characters in the ASCII 127+ range with System: OS system font (8x16)
> set.
Indeed it only works after having made the change in Configure Keyboard.
>>
>> Another manipulation which explains above. Open !Char and select: System
>> Font.
>> Now open Configure Keyboard and change the country !Char update its
>> display.
>>
> I have seen this working in the past, but I can't seem to replicate the
> results.
> What I can do is open the Chars window and select a *non*-System font
> that actually contains encodings beyond the default, e.g. DejaVu, at
> which point I can change the Encoding option (normally greyed out
> because I default to System font in !Chars) to Greek or Cyrillic and
> view Cyrillic characters in the 127+ range. I can't seem to alter the
> encoding from within StrongED or !Edit, though, which means that
> selecting the Cyrillic keyboard is just generating accented Latin-1
> characters there.
!Configure keyboard Russia and keys alt+shift work for Edit and StrongEd
I do not know if it is useful to you, but it is especially not very
simple, a text editor UTF-8 would be better.
--
Jean-Michel
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