On a related issue - is there any means to switch charsets (for all
sorts of screen printing), and this, back-&-forth "on the fly" ?
At least, in text/console mode ?

REM: most "garbled" screen presentation of text has the simple cause
in different charsets employed, sepectively, (a.) in the (txt) file,
(b.) for the system/screen char setting to present it.
(This concerns 8-bit charsets, and there, the full-8-bit range; most
frequent is the problem of "text" from a Windows-machine - the
M$-declaration of "ISO-8859-1" is false, it does _not_ comply - read on
any other, _including_ those with correct ISO-8859-1 charsets set.)

Remapping could (and _should_, IMO) be an easy thing, with switching to
the right charset with reading/screen-printing that one piece (and then
switching back to the generally used charset).

// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-09-27
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read  ==>  http://www.revobild.net

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