Re: lynx-dev French accents (was special char's)

[Philip Webb]

990116 Laura Eaves a ecrit: 
> The weird part is when I display her mail by catting it to the screen
> I get mostly greek and mathematical chars,
> but when I display the mail using lynx I get the correct characters.
> on the command line I get c with a comma below it (what I want)
> but when I put this in a file and run it through lynx it displays nothing.
> When I type  alt231  on the command line I get a Greek letter `tau',
> but when I put this in a file and run lynx
> it displays the c with the comma below it, which is what I want.
 
a bit more poking around has narrowed things down a bit
& as you say, you learn something every day: i too can now enter
CP437 characters directly into my XT using  Alt+Keypad-numbers !
that's what you have been doing to get `tau' & `c-cedil' on your PC,
which are CP437 codes (hex)  e7 87  = (dec)  231 135 .
however, UNIX -- yours & mine -- doesn't respond the same way,
presumably since it expects ISO-8859-1,
which has `c-cedil' = (hex)  e7  = (dec)  231  & doesn't know about `tau'.
it's yet another instance of the great schism between UNIX & M$.

my earlier advice about assumed/display charsets & Kermit still stands.

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