On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 02:07:56 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 22:53:59 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I have just recently entered a change in my Arachne setup so that it
>> is now configured for the character set ISO-1859-1.
It was configured for ISO-8859-1. Sorry for the typo.
>> Non-English Spanish language characters follow:
>> 160 � an accented a, forward accent /
>> 130 � an accented e, forward accent /
>> 161 � an accented i, forward accent /
>> 162 � an accented o, forward accent /
>> 163 � an accented u, forward accent /
>> 164 � an n with a tilde over it
>> 166 � a superscripted a with a line under it
>> 167 � a superscripted o with a line under it
>> 168 � an inverted question mark
>> 173 � an inverted exclamation mark
>> Do you view these characters as described?
> Sam, your ORIGINAL post looked OK to me in NS and Arachne but this one
> does not look correct in Arachne. But, as you say, it does look right
> in DOS. However, I have no idea what ISO-1859-1 is supposed to look
> like. Maybe you meant 8859-1 ? Although I wouldn't know what that is
> supposed to look like either.
Yes, I meant 8859-1. Sorry for the typo. To me, neither my original post
nor this current post looks right to me when viewed with Insight. They
both look good to me when seen from the DOS console.
> I think we need some graphics with labels (say a .gif) so everyone can
> view the character sets associated with these names the same way.
I thought about that, but was afraid that someone would complain about
the posting of a graphics file to the mailing list. I think the
characters are adequately described in the text. By speaking of an
accented vowel, "forward accent /" I mean to describe an accent mark
going this way (/) instead of the other way (\). The French language
has a lot of accent marks going the other way. In Spanish, all the
accent marks go this way (/). If someone knows of some proper technical
terms by which to describe various types of accent marks, please tell us
about them.
Sam Heywood
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