"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If someone knows of some proper technical terms by which to describe
> various types of accent marks, please tell us about them.
http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/accents/table.txt is Section
19. Table of ISO 8859-1 Characters
from the ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ.
>> 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.
When editing French text in DOS, I enter ISO-Latin-1 8-bit codes and
load an ISO-Latin-1 VGA text font so I can see them correctly. The
tools I use are at http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/util/ .
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa
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