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Григорий Клюшников

I'm sure that "mode" command used this same method to switch to a Cyrillic font.

1 Oct 2023 at 0:21 | Wall-to-wall
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Neven Falica

@grishka @tubetime It's probably exactly the same for old YUSCII DOS font, too.

1 Oct 2023 at 0:32 | Open on ohai.social
Jernej Simončič �

@elkarrde @grishka @tubetime On EGA/VGA it did; on Hercules you had to swap the ROM (and if you were fancy, you got one that was twice the size, and added a switch at the back to switch between original and YU font).

1 Oct 2023 at 8:31 | Open on infosec.exchange
Neven Falica

@jernej__s @grishka @tubetime Back in the day I've had a locally assembled XT (Ivel Trend) with an EGA screen and a small program that would change all the "unused" letters into letter with diacritics, but my brother got localized Olivetti M24 PC with Olivetti's version of CGA graphics, and he wasn't able to switch from weirdly looking DOS prompt - C:Đ> 😅

1 Oct 2023 at 9:07 | Open on ohai.social
Григорий Клюшников

Neven, Japanese Windows, to this day, shows "￥" as a path separator because of some quirk of Japanese DOS character encoding and people getting used to it.

1 Oct 2023 at 9:20
Jernej Simončič �

@elkarrde @grishka @tubetime Yeah, C:Đ> was what we had for the first few years, too (and ŠĆ instead of [], on Hercules card), until my father bought a VGA card and monitor and we switched to CP852.

1 Oct 2023 at 9:39 | Open on infosec.exchange
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