HISTORY OF THE DOS CODEPAGE PACK
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Ver 1.0 - 30/Nov/2003
Initial release.
Ver 1.1 - 02/Apr/2004
Updates on documentation.
Latin-1 with Euro (cp858) copied to EGA6 and EGA7.CPI files.
Greek codepage cp111 removed from EGA5.CPI file.
Ver 1.2 - 04/Aug/2004
CPI files are now compressed (CPX) with UPX program.
Ver 1.3 - 08/Jul/2005
Moved cp57781 (Hungarian) from EGA10 to EGA6.
New cp58335: Kashubian, included on EGA10.
Ver 1.4 - 18/Aug/2005
New file: EGA11.CPX.
Contains cp30000 (Saami),
which is actually a superset of "SamTast",
which was a DOS encoding for some saami languages.
Ver 1.5 - 15/Oct/2005
Major relocation (no changes on EGA, EGA3 and EGA8).
Affected files and codepages:
EGA2: Removed cp850 and 858
Included cp1118 and 1119
EGA4: Included new codepage: 30010 (Cyrillic Romanian and Gagauz)
EGA5: Removed cp850
Included cp113 and cp852
EGA6: Removed cp858, 113 and 57781
Included cp58210 and 60258
Included new codepage: 30008 (Abkhaz).
EGA7: Totally rebuilt. Contains new codepages:
30011 (Cyrillic Russian Southern District)
30013 (Cyrillic Russian Volga District - Turkic languages)
30014 (Cyrillic Russian Volga District - Finno-Ugric lang.)
30017 (Cyrillic Russian Northwestern District)
30018 (Cyrillic Russian and latin tatar)
30019 (Cyrillic Russian and latin chechen)
EGA9: Removed cp850
Included cp867 (czech)
EGA10: Removed cp867 and 58335.
Included cp852 and cp57781
EGA11: Included cp858
Included new codepages:
30001 (Celtic)
30004 (Greenlandic)
30007 (Latin)
30009 (Romani)
New files:
EGA12 - Contains codepages 858, 852 and 58335
New codepages:
30003 (Latin American)
EGA13 - Contains codepages 852, 895, 58152, 59234 and 62306.
Contains new codepage: cp30002 (Tajik)
EGA14 - Contains new codepages:
30006 (Vietnamese)
30012 (Cyrillic Russian Siberian and Far Eastern Districts)
30015 (Khanty)
30016 (Mansi)
30020 (Low saxon and frisian)
30021 (Oceania)
ver 2.0 - 10/Jan/2006
New files:
EGA15 - Contains new codepages:
30023 - Southern Africa
30024 - Northern and Eastern Africa
30025 - Western Africa
30026 - Central Africa
30027 - Beninese
30028 - Nigerien
Minor relocation:
EGA12 - Removed:
30005 (Yoruba)
30022 (Canadian First Nations)
Included:
30029 - Mexican
30030 - Mexican II
New file:
EGA16 - Contains codepages:
858 - Latin-1 with Euro
30005 - Yoruba (now called "Nigerian")
30022 - Canadian First Nations
ver 2.1 - 26/Aug/2006
Corrections: Glyph #EFh on codepages 773 and 775
was represented as an acute accent
when it should be a right single
quotation mark.
IPA glyphs on codepages 777 and 778
were redrawn; one of them was wrong
and was corrected ("open e" is now
"reversed open e").
Character O-acute was missing on
czech codepages 867/895 (character
o-acute was encoded twice) when in
50-line text mode (8x8 font).
Capital and small forms of cyrillic
letter dzhe were misplaced on the
8x14 font of codepage 30008.
ver 2.3 - 03/Sep/2007
EGA16 - Contains new codepage:
30033 - Cyrillic MIK Bulgarian
New file:
EGA17 - Contains codepages:
858 - Latin-1 with Euro
30034 - Cherokee
ver 3.0 - 12/Aug/2011
EGA - Codepage 853 was enhanced:
Plus/minus sign and
5 currency signs (euro, cent, yen, maltese lira and spesmilo),
all inserted in previously empty codepoints.
EGA4 - Codepage 61282 renamed to 3012.
EGA10 - Codepage 57781 renamed to 3845.
EGA16 - Codepage 30033 renamed to 3021.
EGA17 - Included:
862 - Hebrew
864 - Arabic
30033 - Formerly Cyrillic Bulgarian MIK,
now Crimean Tatar with Hryvnia
30039 - Ukrainian with Hryvnia
30040 - Russian with Hryvnia
New file:
EGA18 - Contains codepages:
856 - Hebrew II
3846 - Turkish
3848 - Brazilian ABICOMP