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lynx-dev Kermit & accents on letters
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Philip Webb |
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lynx-dev Kermit & accents on letters |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 03:33:14 -0400 (EDT) |
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.
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