On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:38:3 +0800, J J Young wrote:
> Go get your fill of the HTML entities at
> http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schluter/doc/tags/characters.html
Thanks a lot, Jake. I really needed that.
Here is the problem:
With the American ISO that I am using, HTML entity values are not the same
as ascii values. This means that if I were to send an email message written
in the Spanish language to a person who uses Arachne Insight to read his
mail, then the message would be perfectly intelligible to him provided I use
the HTML entity values. If he reads his mail with a program such as
Net-Tamer or Barebones DOS, then I would have to compose the message by use
of the ascii values.
If I were to set up my ISO within DOS to use Latin-1, would the ALT + NUM
characters as viewed from the DOS console be seen the same as viewed from
within Arachne Insight Mail?
In order to achieve universal compatibility we will have to deconstruct
this Tower of Babel. This does not mean that we should all learn to speak
one universal language. Some concepts and thoughts and emotions are
expressed and formulated better in some languages than in others, and
vice-versa. I am merely suggesting that everybody should adopt one
universal numbering scheme for all the characters used in all of the world's
languages. Some persons might object to this proposal on the grounds that
some cultures use different symbols to indicate the same numeric values;
however, all computer keyboards that I know about are all set up for using
either Arabic Decimal Numerals or Hexadecimal Numerals. So that should not
create a problem, as these two numbering systems are very well known and are
easily converted.
Please examine the characters below from within Insight and also from
within the DOS console. I think we all can agree that this is a big problem.
ALT + NUM, Spanish language characters
from table http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schluter/doc/tags/characters.html
These are rendered correctly in Arachne's Insight Mail, but are incorrect
when viewed at the DOS console:
225 � Corresponds to ascii 160 in DOS
233 � Corresponds to ascii 130 in DOS
237 � Corresponds to ascii 161 in DOS
243 � Corresponds to ascii 162 in DOS
250 � Corresponds to ascii 163 in DOS
241 � Corresponds to ascii 164 in DOS
170 � Corresponds to ascii 166 in DOS
186 � Corresponds to ascii 167 in DOS
191 � Corresponds to ascii 168 in DOS
161 � Corresponds to ascii 173 in DOS
ALT + NUM, Spanish language characters
from ascii chart, the version normally used in the US.
These are viewed correctly from the DOS console, but are incorrect when
viewed in Arachne's Insight Mail.
160 � Corresponds to HTML entity 225
130 � Corresponds to HTML entity 233
161 � Corresponds to HTML entity 237
162 � Corresponds to HTML entity 243
163 � Corresponds to HTML entity 250
164 � Corresponds to HTML entity 241
166 � Corresponds to HTML entity 170
167 � Corresponds to HTML entity 186
168 � Corresponds to HTML entity 191
173 � Corresponds to HTML entity 161
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BTW, I would be curious to know how this message looks to someone who is
reading it with Outlook or Eudora, or any other popular Winblows program.
Sam Heywood
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