On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 00:15:06 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) wrote:
> "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.
Thank you for the feedback, but I don't know how to interpret the information
you have provided. I do not understand how line 1 could possibly be right
when viewed from the DOS console. As viewed from within Insight, and
rendered to HTML, then line 1 is correct. When viewed from the DOS console
the middle group and the bottom group are correct. How could it be any other
way? The numeric keypad is always mapped the same regardless of whatever
keyboard selection you should set up.
> 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.
OK, thanks. I'll take a look at them.
>Howard Eisenberger
>Ottawa
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All the best,
Sam Heywood
P.S. BTW, your French is rendered correctly when viewed in Insight, and
as rendered to HTML. It is *not* viewed correctly from the DOS console.
I did not set up my DOS for any particular kind of special keyboard mapping.
My DOS then is at it's default language setting, which is the US keyboard.
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