>28-Feb-2000 12:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I used the LYNews.c news reader to read soc.culture.french and
>> soc.culture.german, and observed that I got nice German text with umlauts
>> and beta for 'ss', while soc.culture.french gave me garbage for accented
>> vowels.
>
>In lynx, chartrans mechanism does not implemented for news:
>only for http:// and file:// URLs, sorry.
>
>For news, you see bytes transpently as they sent by the news server,
>so "Display character set" and "Assumed document charset" have no effect
>here, it does depends on your font installed. Try to find some http://
>repository for dedicated news group, that could solve your problems.
>
"Installed font" is a meaningless concept for the Dos Window that is
used to implement the crt.o of Windows. It is always the code page
of the country for which Windows was issued. But, you are wrong about
one thing: There is most certainly a character translation going on
in news groups. It works perfectly for German. It gives Greek letters
for any romance language. If there were no translation going on,
German would not be displayed correctly.
