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From: vtailor
Subject: http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0898/msg00913.html
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 05:46:01 -0500 (CDT)

>On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Laura Eaves wrote:
>
>> Could someone familiar with charset issues please clarify the following?
>> I've noticed on some websites I get funny graphic characters in foreign words
>.
>> I assume this has to do with my display charset being wrong.  (For example,
>> I should see an e with a ` over it, but get a funny graphic instead.)
>
>I am certainly not a character set expert, but I have set this up for my
>own use. The usual problem is that the document is in ISO 8859-1 (the
>same as Latin1), and your terminal is either set up with a different
>character set (on MSDOS this is usually cp437), or is set up to use only
>7bit characters (usually on unix). The best place I know that explains
>how to do this is the ISO 8859 FAQ at:
>"http://www.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/mike/8bit/FAQ-ISO-8859-1";
>Seeing "funny graphic characters" usually means that you are on MSDOS
>using cp437.
>
>If you are on MSDOS, you can get some simple conversions by
>setting your display character set to DosLatinUS (cp437). For full

The irony is that the character set translation code is included in the
Windows version of lynx, but doesn't do anything useful.
^Q

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