On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:13:52 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) wrote:
> "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 130 � an accented e, forward accent /
>> At my end they are correct as seen at the DOS console, but incorrect
>> when viewed within Insight while the message is still in my outbox.
> The default (hardware) DOS charset is CP437. Char 130 will appear as
> an accented e, forward accent /. But in MS-Windows (ANSI charset) or
> any system using ISO-Latin-1 it will appear as something else. These
> systems use char 233 to display this character, which is the Greek
> letter "theta" in CP437.
Very interesting. I observe from the DOS console that your French
language tagline uses character 233, or the Greek letter "theta" in
order for it to rendered to character 130 (an accented e, forward accent /)
in Arachne's Insight.
As an experiment I once sent as an email message an ascii table, from
character 32 to character 255 to my sister who uses a Mac. In her email
program she viewed all the characters correctly.
When I conducted the same experiment by sending the same message to a
couple of Windoze users, they reported the ascii table received as FUBAR.
Sam Heywood
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