LYNX-DEV Fwd: webwatch-l Strange Numbers in Lynx

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

I didn't see much of a response to Kelly Ford's question over on 
Web-watch, and am taking the liberty of asking the question here.  I 
see these  extended character entities" (not the technically 
correct name) often on MSN.COM and SLATE.COM.  I see similar 
characters when using MS Word 6 to save a file in one of its four 
kinds of ASCII.  Are we supposed to be running Code Page 850?  Can we 
even do this while running our favorite VT100 DOS communications 
program into a Unix copy of Lynx?

I think that inquiring minds would like to know.


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From: Kelly Ford   <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 10:03:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: webwatch-l Strange Numbers in Lynx
Hi All,

I'm sure other Lynx numbers have encountered web sites where text is
filled with strange numbers preceded with a couple punctuation marks.
The most common seems to be &#0146;.  My guess is that these are 
referencesto other characters from the ASCII character set which look 
likepunctuation marks, since the &#0146; occurs where an apostrophe is
typically called for.  Is there a way to eliminate these numbers from text
or have them replaced with more standard characters?

Kelly Ford
address@hidden
See my home page at http://www.teleport.com/~kford/index.html


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-- Lloyd Rasmussen
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