Re: Editing PETSCII on Linux

From: A. Fachat <afachat_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:11:49 +0100
Message-ID: <144f84b7a60.279a.b4d1f2b66006003a6acd9b1a7b71c3b1@gmx.de>
and remwmber C64 petscii is different from PET petscii....


Am 25. März 2014 08:44:46 schrieb Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>:

> Hi!
>
> > I keep wondering if someone hasn't already come up with a PETSCII to 
> Unicode mapping that's two-way.
>
> As always, Triad to the rescue:
> http://www.df.lth.se/~triad/krad/recode/
> http://www.df.lth.se/~triad/krad/recode/petscii_c64en_uc.txt
> http://www.df.lth.se/~triad/krad/recode/petscii_c64en_lc.txt
>
> see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII
>
> I have an altered version of this in C form in my D64 viewer, modified for 
> Swedish PETSCII:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/peterk/d64-browser.git;a=blob;f=d64.cc;h=47a46c92f5d9ddfda952f09c1a108e868add761e;hb=refs/heads/master
>
> For it to be two-way, you would need to map all the unknown characters, 
> possibly to the Unicode private usa area (PUA) 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas>. The simplest mapping is 
> probably just to map any unused area to U+E0XX where XX is the PETSCII code.
>
> Also note that PETSCII contains a lot of duplicated characters, so if you 
> use them and still want it to display correctly you might need to use 
> something like variation selectors 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_(Unicode_block)>.
>
> --
> \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
>
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