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IMHO, there ought to be a "standard" universally accepted chart for all
256 ALT + NUM characters. Of course I realize that only 256 characters
will not be enough for all the world's languages, but 256 will suffice for
most European languages. Other languages may simply use some other system.
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There already is a standard, published in many books. But then upper-ASCII
foreign language characters don't come out right.
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The Email consists of the values ...
and a line telling HOW TO INTERPRET THEM ...
(characterset latin-1, cp437 ...)
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I don't think "cp437" is recognized as a charset for the Internet. I checked
the RFC but forget the RFC number.
SH> Can the receiver easily switch his setup from one character set to
SH> another without messing things up?
RM> He should ... naturally it depends on the program.
RM> (the mail client I use here does this great ...)
Ricsi, what mail reader do you use? Is it SoupGate-DOS v1.05?
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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?
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Everything came out right for me, viewing in regular DOS with "Tiny Editor", a
mail-unaware text editor for DOS and OS/2.
Thomas Mueller
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