Re: Second Sight SVGA Board Tech Info

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Khym Mahn (khym@bga.com) wrote:
: In article <36v1ms$qju@paris.ics.uci.edu>, Orion Pax <jlee@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
: >: ISO-8859-1 codes (VERY useful, used on the WWW, X11, Windozes,
: >:  etc...)
: >
: >These are 16-bit character types and not that easy to implement.

: Isn't ISO-8859-1 the same thing as "ISO Latin 1"? It's an 8 bit
: character set, not 16... But if the SS uses a standard VGA chip,

Hmm.  Could be.  I was just reasoning from my minor X-windows experience
where the character set could handle a very large range of characters
from normal English to something like Chinese characters, and it was a
16-bit char type.

Joseph
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