Re: LYNX-DEV pardon my french

[David Combs]

Finally understood.  Has NOTHING to do with my understanding of
Lynx -- and yet should be documented WITH lynx.  Here's what happened.

First of all, like lots of "old timers" (ASR-33, dec-10, dec-20 with
twenex, ancient vax 780s, etc), I had NO IDEA that one COULD display
accents, circumflexes, etc, in ascii.  Thus my idea for the
uppercaseifying, which DOES make sense if there is no way to
display those things.  (Obviously, if one THOUGHT about a bit,
you could issue commands to back-up and print the accent --
but only on paper-terminals, and only for lower-case.  But if
we all thought about things properly, the calculus etc would have
been invented/discovered a thousand years ago...)

Do I have a PC that would give me bad output for these more-modern
display methods?  Nope -- just a sun sparcstation-5, running out of
a shelltool -- seemingly the perfect thing for the internet.

And both here and on netcom (sun) I have terminal set to "sun" (here
locally I am using the console, colors, etc).

Anyway, last night I did a quick search through what I have downloaded
from the internet, looking for "french" and "france" in file names,
and found one -- from the same place (url) the text I posted last
night was from.  So I did a "page" (eg more) on it, and LO AND BEHOLD,
it shows up with accents grave and acute!!!!

I switch back to netcom, and page and less it there -- no dice, shows
those "i"'s where I wanted to see "eacute".  What's going on?  AH HA! --
they've changed lynx!  Because that LOCAL file was from back in April,
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