Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx translation tables

[Peter Karlsson]

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> (You should use diff -c format for patches.)

Noted.

> Sorry, this is not possible.

Okay. Well, he (the person who originally requested this) will have to
manage. I guess he already does that quite well, since he's running a very
old computer as a VT100 terminal.

> seems to be the only region where a different
> 7-bit character set is still popular _in connection with the Internet_.

That's mainly because our extra characters aren't that nice when dropped
(like in German, where rewriting letters like ö to oe are commonly
accepted), so we tried to find ways of using them.

> (your table uses '@' (\100) for Eacute, I wonder how you
> are dealing with e-mail addresses...)

It's a pain in the ass, yes. But that's life...

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