Category Archives: I18N

WordSet: Stolen Without Compensation

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Michal Necasek

A kind reader from a land formerly beyond the Iron Curtain recently supplied the OS/2 Museum with a curious word processor that calls itself WordSet. The files unfortunately lost their original timestamps quite some time ago, but it is apparent … Continue reading →

Posted in Editors, I18N, PC history, WordStar | 29 Comments

KEYBCS2

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Michal Necasek

After writing about the likely origins of IBM code page 852, I thought I should revisit the homegrown Czech alternative solution, the Kamenický brothers encoding and their keyboard driver. Its existence is well documented, and the so-called (somewhat misnamed) KEYBCS2 … Continue reading →

Posted in DOS, I18N, IBM, x86 | 29 Comments

Where Did CP852 Come From?

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Michal Necasek

In the 1990s, a lot of my documents were written in code page 852 (CP852), also known as PC Latin 2. This code page is sometimes called “Eastern European”, which is a bit misleading, given that it does not cover … Continue reading →

Posted in DOS, I18N, IBM, Microsoft, OS/2, PC history | 47 Comments