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In article <24604@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <6939@bula.se> Bjorn Knutsson <bjornk@bula.se> writes:
>>What I really think I'd like to see is a program that lets you use the
>>font of your choice along with the keymap of your choice. I mean, if
>>Bill Hawes can include a keymap-command with WShell/ConMan that allows
>>you to choose what keymap a specific shell should use, why can't you
>>guys do something similar? It would solve a lot of problems for us
>>Europeans.
>
>Do you mean something like a ToolType AND CLI parameter like:
>
>1.> Atalk3 KEYMAP myswede FONT  swe	(CLI)
>
>KEYMAP=myswede			(ToolTYpe)
>FONT=swe

Well, that could solve the problem. But actually, I think I'd prefer to have
it as a menu option, or in the case of ATalk, have it in the quickmenu.
That way, you could specify font/keymap combinations for every entry in the
phonebook. We currently have to deal with three different "standards" for
our national characters. The 7-bit code, the IBM PC 8-bit code and the ISO
(Amiga) 8-bit code. Having to reload the program just to switch between
them seems like overkill to me.

>The KEYMAP deal should be easy (Use default if no keymap is given as AT-/// does
>rigth now).  The font would not work that well (since VT100 needs a whole
>family of fonts). It would work just for the initial font only.

I can see your point about the fonts. But since VT100 uses its own fonts,
you could count that as a special case. Your ANSI emulation, on the other
hand, could support many different fonts.

>-- Marco
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