Setting Screen Code Pages

This example uses two prepared code pages—no hardware code pages are used—to set up the system to support Denmark/Norway and the Multilingual national languages.

To the end of your CONFIG.SYS file, add the following on separate lines:

country=045,,c:\dos\country.sys
device=c:\dos\display.sys con:=(ega,,2)
install=c:\dos\nlsfunc.exe c:\dos\country.sys

These CONFIG.SYS commands tell DOS that the EGA's hardware code page is not used, and that you are allocating space for two prepared code pages. Also, they load memory-resident, national support functions.

To the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, add the following exactly as shown (on separate lines):

mode con cp prep=((865,850) c:\dos\ega.cpi) 
keyb dk,,c:\dos\keyboard.sys 
chcp 865 

If the AUTOEXEC.BAT file contains two lines at the end of the file that invoke AUTOEXEC.BAT files on the E: or H: drive, place the international command lines before these lines.

These AUTOEXEC.BAT commands do the following:

• They load prepared code pages 865 and 850 into memory—they get the code pages from the EGA.CPI file.

• They load the Denmark (dk) keyboard program.

• They start the system with the Denmark/Norway (865) code page.

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  Note –

  Refer to your DOS manual for information on the PRINTER.SYS file and the types of printers it supports for code-page switching.

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