Re: Russian on //c: GUI, fonts, how?

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

There was a program for typing in Hebrew, probably using the hires graphics
screens. Couldn't this be adapted for Russian? I also seem to remember vaguely
that Beagle Bros. did something like this as well.

On 1 Aug 2001 14:26:45 -0700, Armagon wrote:

> I want to be able to type in Russian on my Apple //c.  I don't have a
> printer that works with it directly, but I can transfer files and disk
> images back and forth between the //c and my Pentium II.
>
> OK, I am just somewhat scared to probe into this question.  It has been
> quite some time since I have done any programming on the //c, and then most
> of it was in AppleSoft.
>
> I don't imagine that it is possible to rewrite the images of characters to
> the character buffer so that Cyrillic letters could be displayed on the
> text screen, is it?  (BTW, if this is possibly, could I change the
> character buffer, load up AppleWorks, and somehow enter in extended codes?)
>
> Which means graphics, right?  Are there any suitable GUIs out there?  Would
> I have to create what I need from scratch?  If so, am I better off creating
> a bitmap font, a vector one using shape tables, or something else?
>
> How much of a headache would trying to add colour be?  How about trying to
> use double hi-res graphics?  (Is there a version of basic I can legally
> download that supports double hi-res?)
>
> Oh yeah.  Would I need to make my own string routines?  If I was to match
> my font to Windows CP-1251, which uses all 256 ASCII codes, would I have
> problems with normal string routines setting the most significant bit high,
> making it difficult to tell apart what is encoded in English and what is
> encoded in Russian?
>
> Is there anything else that I should know about concerning this?  Are there
> any commercial products or other things hobbyists have done?  Are there any
> free downloads?
>
>
> Well, I hope that that is it.  Thank you so much for your time,
> Armagon

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