"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>If I wanted to use my Arachne to compose and send a note in the Spanish
>language to another list member, then I would need to use the following
>special non-English characters:
>
>�, �, �, �, �, �, �, �
>
>If you are looking at the text .CNM file, the above characters are properly
>viewed as� (thus):
>
>ascii 160 = �
>ascii 130 = �
>ascii 161 = �
>ascii 162 = �
>ascii 163 = �
>ascii 164 = �
>ascii 168 = �
>ascii 173 = �
>
>In order to get the aforementioned characters to be rendered correctly by
>HTML, I have to use the ALT + NUM characters listed below:
>
>225 �
>233 �
>237 �
>243 �
>250 �
>241 �
>191 �
>161 �
I'm not using Arachne, but at the DOS console. If I view your message
with CP437 (IBM) or CP850, the top line and bottom group are wrong,
and the middle group is right. However, if I use CP819 (ISO-8859-1 or
ISO-LATIN-1), the top line and bottom group are right and the middle
group is wrong.
>Why is HTML programmed in such a way so as to not perform a one-for-one
>rendering of high ascii characters? IMHO, it would seem a good idea if
>all HTML viewers and text-to-HTML converters were to adhere to the
>international ascii standard. This would eliminate many problems in
>attempting to correspond with someone in a language that is other than
>one's own.
I believe that in this case, ISO-LATIN-1 is the de-facto standard.
This topic just came up (again) at my local FreeNet. I put a couple
of files at http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/accents/ that you might find
helpful.
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa
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