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Alternate character set

#410
From: Verna Friesen
Date: Mon, 07 May 1990 20:55
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I am a new subscriber to this newsgroup as well as a new PC user with the 
following problem:

	I would like to be able to type documents in Greek using my PC.  The
printer end of it is no problem, since it's pretty easy to load a new character
set.  My problem is that I don't know how to get the screen display working.
Can I somehow load a font so that when I type I get an alternate character set
that I have defined myself?  When I worked in Greece, all the computers we
had were customized so that typing CTRL-RET would alternate between Greek
characters and English characters.  I don't expect that can be done with
software (at least not so that it would run from within any word processor,
etc.)  Anyway, I don't need something THAT great -- if I have to
load a program to get Greek and then load something else to switch back, that
would be good enough.  Is this possible?

	I have an AT with an ATI graphics solution card (and Turbo C, if that
helps!)
	I appreciate any suggestions that you might have.

-- Verna Friesen   vjfrieen@maytag.uwaterloo.ca
   University of Waterloo
   Waterloo, ON   CANADA
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From: vjfrieen@maytag.waterloo.edu (Verna Friesen)
Subject: Alternate character set
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Date: Mon, 7 May 90 20:55:23 GMT
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