Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Henry Nelson wrote: [kw:] > > If your your mail (always in iso-2022-jp after conversion, as you've > > described above) , when shown directly with cat or similar, shows up > > correctly, then your terminal emulator[*] does understand iso-2022-jp. > > It shows up "correctly," AFAIK, but of course not kanji, but rather escape > codes and ascii, e.g., "文部省", Ministry of Education, in euc _looks_, i.e., > [esc] replaced with ^[, like "^[$BJ8It>J^[(J" when you view it in vi. Yes, but it's vi then which shows byte 0x1B as "^[" rather than writing it directly to the output stream. So vi is not like "cat or similar" in the way I meant. > You'll only see kanji if you view the mail with "mail" or look at it in "lynx." If you cat such a file (in which vi shows "^[") and see correct kanji, then it means the terminal emulation[*] does understand iso-2022-jp. It could also be that cat itself does some magical transformation, but I think that's very unlikely. [*] The terminal emulation or some magic in between, which for practical purposes can be considered part of the terminal emulation. --- Thanks for your answers to my other questions; they help me understand an environment with which I have no direct experience. Klaus ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]