Re: Second Sight Questions...

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Fr�hling)]

In article <3tbuuj$5hm@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, iigs@wam.umd.edu (Geoff
Weiss) wrote:

> Dirk Froehling <dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> >Is it true that SS doesn't support international character sets in
> >text mode? 
> 
> The answer is yes and no.  The SS has the full IBM 8-bit character set
[snip]
> won't show any of the IBM hi-bit characters.  But, you could turn on
> the SS "IBM video mode" and display any IBM text charcters, including
> the boxes, math symbols, and international characters.  This has to
> be done through a machine language program.
> 
> 
> >If so, will that be fixed in a ROM update?
> 
> Since this isn't a problem, there is nothing to be fixed.

This isn't a problem? Do you know how foreign character sets are handled
in text mode programs? There are some characters in the US-ASCII set
that are not used that much in other countries which get replaced by
special characters, for example [, ], {, }, | are replaced by German
umlauts. On the GS, I just enter the control panel and select the
German display language.
I do not want to patch programs like AppleWorks (nor can I), and if
Sequential wants to sell the SS card to Apple IIe owners in Europe,
who don't have IIGS desktop programs, they should make it compatible
in this respect, too.

> >I have a ROM 03 GS, that means the SS can go into any slot (1-6),
> >but does it override the internal slot function?
> 
> No, the SS doesn't need the slot set to "Your Card."

That's good news, thanks.