Sam Heywood wrote:
>>Within DOS I view it with whatever the default character set is. I have
nothing set up within DOS specifying any character set or code page. Within
Arachne I have changed my setup for ISO-8859-1.
I just checked my "SENT MAIL" box and looked at the message again. The
header *does not* specify charset=US-ASCII.
Here is a copy of the header for the message in question:
------- begin header for sent message ---------
>From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Organization: Arachne Fan Club
>Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 22:53:59 -0500
>X-Mailer: Arachne V1.60;b1
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Charset in insight
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
------ end header for sent message -------------
I think I will need to set up something within DOS in order to resolve this
problem.
Could someone please recommend what I should do?
I want to use charset=ISO-8859-1
I am using Caldera DR-DOS, version 7.02.
I know I might have to add some lines in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS or both.
Where should the line(s) be added in the loading sequences?
Also, please inform me as to whether any proposed changes might reduce
my available free DOS memory.
Please believe me that this subject matter just isn't taught in the schools
around here. All I know about it are some obscure references buried in
the appendix of some text books that I have. In the area where I live, I
don't know anyone who knows anything about code pages.
Thank you all for your help.
Sam Heywood<<
Sam,
I just looked in my MS-DOS 5.0 manual and it seems that you need to load
DISPLAY.SYS, NLSFUNC.EXE, COUNTRY.SYS, and prepare "code pages" using "mode"
command and change code pages by using the DOS command "chcp." For each
"country" there is a "default" code page and an "alternate" code page (stored
in code-page information [.CPI] files.) Obviously, it will take memory!
Much too much to repeat here, but it is the chapter, "Customizing for
International Use," in the DOS manual that I have.
Hope this helps.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
