On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 14:02:24 +0300, Or Botton wrote:
> Richard Menedetter wrote:
>> The problem is:
>> 1) why does Arachne display the 'raw' string
>> 2) and why does arachne state that it is latin-1 encoded ??? (iso-8859-1)
> 1)Well now.. look like its more work for Michael. ;)
> 2)Thats how hebrew goes. Dont look at me. I didnt choose the standard.
> Or Botton
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1) Arachne does display the raw string because the raw string is sent!
Systems based on M$ WORD (Office) sent that string for all 8-bit
caracters even if there is no need to do so because the caracter is in
the ISO-8859-1 caracterset.
If the caracter is in the caracterset, e.g. accented letters like � �
and caracters like that it is possible to type them as ASCII-code using
the ALT key.
Alt 200 = �
201 = �
202 = �
181 = �
163 = �
223 = �
232 = �
246 = �
If the users of WORD did use the ALT key we all could read the
caractercode... but not all caracters can be made this way.
With WORD one can generate far over 255 different caracters
I think a few 1000 because Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic...
scientific notation and so on are stored in 'font tables' and the
"ISO..." you see is pointing to the table which stores the caracter.
To solve this problem one should implant those tables into Arachne.
I think Michael has more important work to do and I am not sure
the extended tables are property of M$... so �-ted (Alt 169).
If that's the situation we have to steel those codes...
A friend of mine installed the new "EURO" caracter... he had to
upload a special program (like a printerdriver) and when he uses the
"euro" in a e-mail or WORD textfile... I see a very long command on my
screen which means: use the special euro-program!
So to get his euro on my screen I have to buy this special euro program
too... that's the way to complicate interchangeble text editting!
Attention HTML users!
You can also use the ALT key to make all the special caracters from the
ISO-8859-1 caracterset instead of &#... TRY IT!
Special attention to Alt 160 = space and this space will not be ommited
by HTML !!!!!
ISO-8859-1 caracters 128 to 161 are not defined (blank in my HTML guide)
but M$ uses them for special WORD features; like the first 32 caracters
in ASCII are used for special purposes (printer control, line feed,
etc).
Maybe HTML also does not use the first 32 ASCII's but the second set of
32 caracters found at 128 to 160... I'am investigating this and any help
on the subject is welcome, very welcome.
Arachne states it is ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) and she is!
M$ extended code is generaly NOT ISO-8859-1 although in my opinion it is
possible to use true 8859 code in M$ WORD using the ALT key.
CU Bastiaan
Ps: in the 'subject bar' I used accented 'e' , French 'c' and Brittish
pound.
Arachne reads them correctly even in the subject and to or from bars.
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