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Support for national characters
When running my application in js-dos the danish characters ÆØÅ is not accepted. This is probably because I need to changte the Keyboard layout in the DOSBox
Display is ok except a single character ø that is displayed as
Now I remember setting this up in DOS in the old days, but what is the right way of doing this in js-dos ?
From the command prompt I can use
keyb
telling me that Codepage 437 has been loaded, but when I try to switch to danish using
keyb dk 865
the command just never returns
Same question for load Ansi.sys
Hi. Interesting question, I never faced this problem before. Games translated to Russian works normally, I think you need to load some dos driver that support your language. like keyrus.sys for Russian.
btw, is
keyb dk 865
never exit because of browser error? can you check browser logs at that moment?
Thank you.
I have retested and now I get an error in the console
But executing
keyb dk 850
fails
And the result in the console is:
Note the difference when trying to load codepage 8 I know is non-existing
Executing just
keyb dk
gives
I will check, but what is the proper way of updating to latest version?
I assumed from https://www.npmjs.com/package/js-dos
npm uninstall -g create-dosbox npm install -g create-dosbox
2nd question is how to check that it is latest version I am running as it is not in the package.json
create-dosbox is a just bootstrap utility. It downloads js-dos and copy dist/* files to public folder.
You need to:
npm install js-dos
and then copy dist/* files into public directory. or just download new release archive and extract it into public directory
npm install js-dos
installed the version, and it was now added to package.json
And you are right I had to copy from node_modules/js-dos/dist to the site.
Now
keyb dk
prints: Keyboard layout dk loaded for codepage 858
Now the Danish Characters is showing fine on the screen
but my keyboard layout is still not danish as æøå and ÆØÅ is not working
The Alt-codes are for example
æ = Alt-145 Æ = Alt-146 ø = Alt-155 Ø = Alt-157 å = Alt-134 Å = Alt-143
and is working fine
So it seems my keyboard isn't mapped correctly in js-dos - any sugestions?
By the way you can see my site at https://turnhelp.snippen.dk
Looking at the DOSBox configuration it might be that i should change the keyboardlayout in the dos-section https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=21824
but then js-dos will not load the file
BTW what is the proper way of executing commands during start? I have tried adding it to the jsdos.conf autoexec section, but that seems not to change anything
You should use autoexec section in .jsdos/dosbox.conf. .jsdos/jsdos.json is not used by dosbox it self, you can ignore it.
js-dos is now loading the file fine, and it seems to work, as I get this response
Only problem is that the national keys still isn't working
Any ideas?
Mmm, sorry I don't know how national keys are implemented in dos. In Russia we used driver to enter national chars from keyboard. It's called keyrus. Maybe you have something similar for Danish
It is working fine in DOSBox 0.74-3 when running on my windows pc. I assume that is because DOSBox finding my current language setup from windows.
I have checked that my chrome is set to danish
I have looked around and the problem is that danish characters is placed in Codepage 865 Nordic, and not in 850 (or 858)
I found a chrome extension called DOSBox, and it seems to have the same kind of problem (But here the key shows another character)
I am currently also testing my DOS application in DOSBox-X from https://dosbox-x.com/ and everything works fine including print, so perhaps the idea of running it in Chrome is not the right solution for me
js-dos is limited version of dosbox that works if browser, so not all features will work in browser. Thank you for interest.