1. about ex.exe and backendd.exe
- Posted by kinz Dec 04, 2008
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Dear EU users,
ex.exe and backendd.exe programs have the built in Open Watcom graphics library, which has its own two fonts (8x14 and 8x8) for the pixel screen modes. These fonts have just single code page, something almost pure Latin. So, if you want, say, OEM Russian, Turkish or Arabic in the pixel DOS32 mode, it doesn't work.
To correct this situation, we have special tool, cp_patcher, which replaces the built in fonts to the needed local fonts.
You can get this tool in the Archive:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cp_patch.zip
But to use this tool you need the *non-compressed* DOS32 executables.
So, let's replace ex.exe and backendd.exe in 4.0 to non-compressed ones (I am not sure if ec.exe works sometimes in pixel mode).
Also, it seems to me, that cp_patcher will be useful as standard tool, included into 4.0 package. It is just 18K.
Regards, Igor Kachan kinz@peterlink.ru
