>From the discussion in arachne-digest, it is obvious, that PC users using western character sets were not really facing charset problems very often ;-) Central and East European DOS users were facing these problems every day, so nothing can surprise them. First of all: Arachne completely ignores any possible DOS codepage settings you may have on your system. I am sorry, but I don't even know how to use this info, and I don't know what DOS uses this info for, in fact. Arachne uses 8-bit font set, which is ISO-8859-1 in default distribution package, whihch is same as used on West European and U.S. Internet and in copies of Windows distributed in West Europe and USA. (Correct me if I am wrong !) PC BIOS and DOS uses defaultly historical CP 850 charset, which includes pseudo-graphic chracters on positions, which are reserved for accented characeters in ISO character sets. Most of CP 850 characters are not present in ISO-8859-2, so Arachne can't output them even if you would define some keyboard translation map, because these special characters are not included in Arachne's font set. However, French and North European users can easily define (and they do) keyboard translation map from their national keyboard (whatever it is) to ISO-Latin-1 codes, and display correctly in Arachne. Additionaly, in SYSTEM\CODEPAGE directory, translation tables can be present, so eg. if HTML document contains tag <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">, Arachne will try to use file SYSTEM\CODEPAGE\8859-2.cp to translate document. This is case of Arachne homepage (I believe ;-), and as a result, you shouldn't see any accented characters in Czech language portions of www.arachne.cz - accented characters are mapped to corresponding 7-bit A-Z characters by Arachne... All what I have said is valid also for ISO-8859-2 fonts which are distrbuted as APM, with exception, that we have one more problem with Windows-1250 character set, which includes cca 6 characters on different positions than ISO :-( -- http://arachne.cz/ (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
