Pre-unicode Swedish character set? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 May 2013

On Sat, 25 May 2013 21:38:17 -0700, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
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 I'm working with some old media that has Swedish text on it.  (8" SS FM
 disks with 4 sectors of 1024 bytes per track--no OS or file structure on
 it).

 I can probably figure out the structural details that I need with the
 exception of modern Unicode or UTF-8 characters corresponding to what's
 on the disk.

 Here's a binary dump sample of such a record (LIST format):

  >?000500  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00
00 3C 44 65               <De
 >000510  74 20 76 61 72 20 66 FE-6F 72 62 61 6E 6E 65 6C  t var f?orbannel
 >000520  73 65 6E 3E 0A 00 00 00-3C 73 6F 6D 20 64 72 65  sen>?   <som dre
 >000530  76 20 6F 73 73 20 62 6F-72 74 20 66 72 FA 61 6E  v oss bort fr?an
 >000540  20 53 61 6D 73 6F 6E 2E-3E 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00   Samson.>?  Note
the characters FA and FE in this sample.

 Can anyone help with this thing?

 --Chuck FE 6F = ? (o with two dots above)
FA 61 = ? (a with a ring above)

The text, translated, goes:
<It/that was the curse>
<which drove us away from Samson>
It or that depending on the context.

/Jonas