https://github.com/htruong/vicat

"Cat"-like utility for MS-DOS that supports Vietnamese in UTF-8.
https://github.com/htruong/vicat

dos int10h ms-dos openwatcom utf-8 vietnam vietnamese

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"Cat"-like utility for MS-DOS that supports Vietnamese in UTF-8.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/htruong/vicat
• Owner: htruong
• Created: 2021-07-19T00:11:17.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-07-21T02:35:47.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T16:58:29.131Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: dos, int10h, ms-dos, openwatcom, utf-8, vietnam, vietnamese
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
## vicat - Unicode Vietnamese file reader for MS-DOS

![Vicat](https://github.com/htruong/vicat/blob/master/docs/screenshot.png?raw=true)

## Features

- Displays Vietnamese UTF-8 file directly from command line.

- Does not mingle with your primary VGA font and your favorite TUI program.

- Draws ASCII art in Unicode format. For example, download [this file](http://thedubber.altervista.org/other/file_nfo/x/X-Com%20Interceptor%20TRAINER-RAZOR.txt), and [convert it to Unicode using this tool](http://codelobe.com/tools/cp437-converter). You can then use any editor to add Vietnamese characters.

## Why?

... why not? Programming for MS-DOS is fun.

## Acknowledgements

- [TECH Help Manual](http://www.techhelpmanual.com/)

- [Code page 437](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437)

- [VileR's FRAPT](https://int10h.org/blog/2019/05/fontraption-vga-text-mode-font-editor/)

- [OpenWatcom-VSCode](https://github.com/intbeam/watcom-vscode)

- [Code page 437 to Unicode - Lookup table](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45375804/converting-char-from-cp437-encoding-to-utf-8-encoding-always-yields-the-same-cha)

- [VileR's int10h page](https://int10h.org/)