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- From: davis@bedlam.asd.sgi.com (Tom Davis)
- Subject: Re: zip - 8 bit ascii "characters"?
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:36:31 GMT
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- Sorry. I misunderstood. There is another version of zip called the
- "internationalized" version that does display a whole bunch of additional
- characters that's in the release. The additional characters use the
- ascii codes between 0x80 and 0xff. I forget what the program's called --
- either "isozip" or "zip.int", I think. For now, it can only use the
- single built-in font that's a little bit larger than the default font,
- and with the additional characters, some of the display optimization
- code can't work, so the display performance isn't quite so fast.
-
- It's not really internationalized; that's a bad name. It just uses the
- ISO character set, and can't possibly be used for asian fonts, etc. I'm
- also not sure what sorts of contortions you'll have to go through to
- actually print any documents you may create.
-
- You can remap keys on your keyboard using /usr/bin/X11/modmap so you
- can insert the characters directly without the <Escape> or <Control-v>
- monkey-business. (Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of free keys left --
- if you decide you don't use macros, the F1-F12 keys are good, or you
- could use keys on the numeric key pad.)
-
- The isozip program is not nearly as thoroughtly tested, but it seems
- solid. I've never gotten a bug report for it that was not also a bug
- in the standard version of zip.
-