Re: lynx-dev Kermit & accents on letters

[David Combs]

PLEASE ADD IT TO THE FAQ!  (THANKS!)



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> From address@hidden Tue Aug  4 00:34:19 1998
> From: Philip Webb <address@hidden>
> Subject: lynx-dev Kermit & accents on letters
> 
> this is mainly for the Archive, but others may be interested;
> occasionally, there are inquiries to lynx-dev about this.
> 
> i have long wanted to see the accents on French, German or Spanish names
> in the news stories i read from the international press using Lynx.
> the whole process appeared daunting,
> in view of the many combinations of languages, software & settings.
> there's a file on IBM-PCs in  /docs  in the Lynx distribution package,
> but it doesn't offer any useful advice.
> 
> actually, it's easy, at least for my PC + Kermit + UNIX
> (that's DOS 3.2 + MS-Kermit 3.10 + IRIX 5.3 (SGI) ).
> with Lynx character-set ISO-Latin-1 & `transparent' in C-Kermit (in UNIX)
> & the ordinary N American codepage 437 in MS-DOS,
> what made the difference was adding  2 lines  to  mskermit.ini :
> 
>   set display 8-bit
>   set transf char latin1
> 
> only the former is needed to see the correct accents within Lynx,
> but the latter is also needed to download them UNIX -> PC
> (having previously printed them to a file from Lynx).  
> 
> Kermit boasts very powerful translation abilities, esp later versions,
> so it should be equally straightforward for other character-sets.
> 
> Kermit is available free from  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ ;
> you must have appropriate versions at both ends of the wire.
>