ISO.TXT
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This file provides information about the ISO.CPI file. 

The ISO.CPI file contains ISO-compliant versions of certain character 
sets (codepages).

ISO-compliant fonts are special monospace (nonproportional) display fonts 
that, on some displays, are more readable than standard display fonts. 
(ISO fonts work only in 25-line mode; they do not support 43- or 50-line 
mode.) The ISO fonts included with MS-DOS 6.22 comply with Part 3 of 
the ISO 9241 Specification.

The ISO.CPI file contains ISO-compliant versions of the following character 
sets (codepages):

        437  United States            
        737  Greek II                 
        850  Multilingual (Latin I)   
        852  Slavic/Eastern European (Latin II)        
        855  Cyrillic I               
        857  Turkish
        860  Portuguese
        861  Icelandic
        863  Canadian-French
        865  Nordic
        866  Russian (Cyrillic II)
        869  Greek I

To install ISO fonts, you add or edit commands in your AUTOEXEC.BAT and 
CONFIG.SYS files. If your system is already set up to load a character
set (code page) other than the standard United States character set, 
carry out Procedure 1. Otherwise, carry out Procedure 2.

Procedure 1 -- If your system is already set up to load a character set 
other than the standard United States character set:

1. In your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, change the MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE
   command so that it specifies ISO.CPI instead of your usual 
   codepage (.CPI) file. 
   
   For example, suppose your current MODE command loads the Portugese 
   character set (860) and looks like the following:
       
       MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((860) C:\DOS\EGA.CPI)

   To use the ISO-compliant version of the Portugese character set, you 
   would change this command to specify ISO.CPI, as follows:

       MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((860) C:\DOS\ISO.CPI)

Procedure 2 -- If you are using the standard US character set:

1. Add a DEVICE command for DISPLAY.SYS to your CONFIG.SYS file. For
   example, if you want to use the United States hardware character 
   set (437), and if DISPLAY.SYS is in the C:\DOS directory, you would
   add the following command to your CONFIG.SYS file:
 
       DEVICE=C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,437,2)
 
   Note that DISPLAY.SYS uses about 12K of memory.

2. Add MODE commands to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to load and select the
   proper character sets (code pages). For example, to use the ISO
   version of the United States character set (437), you would add 
   the following commands to your AUTOEXEC.BAT files:
 
       MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((437) C:\DOS\ISO.CPI)
       MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=437

