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

[Leonid Pauzner]

22-Jan-99 13:10 Kari E. Hurtta wrote:
> Klaus Weide:
>> On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Laura Eaves wrote:

> So when you send mail, there will be (I assume)

>       CP437 text on mail and it is labeled
>       as

>       Content-Type: text/plain; charset=cp437

> If that is situation (I do not have looked lynx's code),
> then this is technically correct.

Lynx does exactly as you mean above.

> It is just to be left to recipient to do character
> set conversions       (for example from cp437 to iso-8859-1).

> Problem in here is that most mail readers do not
> support MIKE in that level that they can do character
> set conversions (except perhaps lynx :-)).

> For example Elm, Elm ME+ (my patches) or Pine do
> not support character set conversions.

> Obviously then IE also do not able to do character
> set conversions. Can you (Laura Eaves) send mail which
> have these accent characters as examples.

> First we need to verify that what labeling lynx
> uses on mail for character set actually _is_ that
> caharacter set what is used on mail.

verified.

> Otherwise there _is_ bug on lynx.

> / Kari Hurtta