Re: Second Sight SVGA Board Tech Info

[khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn)]

In article <36v1ms$qju@paris.ics.uci.edu>, Orion Pax <jlee@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>Frederic Devernay (devernay@sophia.inria.fr) wrote:
>: About the text modes that will be added by SS, I was wondering
>: what text fonts would be supported by the new text modes:
>
>: 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,
you'll probably get the IBM character set, with all those line drawing
characters and other symbols.
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