Re: CBM International CHAROMs

From: Uffe Jakobsen <uffe_at_uffe.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:41:33 +0200
Message-ID: <54160B8D.2060807@uffe.org>
On 2014-09-14 23:15, Uffe Jakobsen wrote:
>
>
> On 2014-09-14 21:52, Uffe Jakobsen wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2014-09-14 21:05, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>>> On 2014-09-14 at 20:44:36, Uffe Jakobsen (uffe@uffe.org) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just spoke to a friend of mine - who worked for Commodore Data A/S in
>>>> Denmark in the 80'es.
>>>>
>>>> He states that the Danish char rom for C64 was made by the danish
>>>> country service manager (first name "Knud") at Commodore Data A/S.
>>>>
>>>> It was sold by Commodore Data A/S as a official kit with
>>>> stickers/labels
>>>> for the keyboard.
>>>
>>> Thank you, Uffe. If that's the one as
>>>
>>> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/c64/characters.901225-01-DK.bin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> then it's probably as "official" as it could ever get. I only wonder
>>> what is with the Ø character being only once there (capital in the
>>> lowercase set). But I don't know those languages enough (I only
>>> understand a bit due to all them being German family) to judge if this
>>> is a language specific peculiarity or there were other reasons for not
>>> having both upper and lowercase variants like with Æ and Å.
>>>
>>
>> I suspect that they had problems doing a proper lowercase "ø" 8x8 makes
>> it quite difficult. I'll have to look at it in VICE later
>>
>
> Just checked the rom - it's been a long time since I've used a C64 with
> DK rom in.
>
> Both upper- and lower-case "ø" and "Ø" are in the rom.
>

BTW I seem to remember that there existed another "thinner" vic20-like 
charset with danish chars in...

It is possible that I have it in one of my machines - need to go through 
the basement.

/Uffe





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