Re: lynx-dev Windows character translation favors German over French?

[Doug Kaufman]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 address@hidden wrote:

> Subject: lynx-dev Windows character translation favors German over French?
> 
> I've run some preliminary tests of lynx.exe with the IBM PC character
> set option enabled, and the latest February version does indeed put
> things like German umlauts where they belong, leaving accented French
> characters translated as Greek letters.  Since the IBM PC character
> set can at least do French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc., it appears
> the translation algorithm could do with some more tweaking.
> (

I am a bit confused by exactly what you are doing here. Your email
claimed to be in cp437, but your subject says windows. As far as I
know, Microsoft Windows uses windows-1252 in the US. I thought that
cp437 and cp850 were used primarily under plain DOS. If you are in
Windows, do you have the same problem if you set Display Character
Set to windows-1252? A mismatch between your Display Character Set
setting and your actual display could account for unusual display of
characters.
                           Doug
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Doug Kaufman
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