Bernard,

Allow me some pro and cons ABOUT MINISOFT publish in the HP3000 list. They
are of public interest: for everybody who wants to plan characters /
convert texts for thos eunucky nations who use more than the 26 English
letters.

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> The HP standard for extended characters (such as accented French) is
> called Roman8.  The Windows standard is ANSI.  Reflection file transfer

AdvanceLink and MiniSoft 92 make some conversion from HP to ANSI char
sets.  The AdvanceLink has a stiff TEMPO.LIB where the altering conversion
is difficult.  In Minisoft the TABLOAD command uses 256 byte long
character conversion files, which can be modified.

It is a great feature from the Minisoft the users can modify their
conversion tables. Their screen font for the Windows has some differences
from the East European character sets sold by the HP for their therminal
and line printers.  Our HP charset is nice to read from the terminal. They
are readable but ugly on our 26xx printer because the accents sit on lower
capital letters than the unaccented normal Latin capital letters.

The main drawback of MiniSoft Central European screen font is that that
accented capital letters are hardly readable: instead of clear ' "  ^  ..
etc. accents, which a widely used in Central Europe there are only small
pale dots.

(Bernard, in August I'll have time to send you snail mail - fax does not
work for pale printouts - , with
examples of ugly and nice CE characters.)

Look at your terminal, and try to display a character table, and look the
             . .      , ,    . . , ,
difference of O   and  O  or  U   U by microscope.


                                Regards
                                             Frank

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