Re: [Lynx-dev] French accents

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Kristopher Kycia wrote:

> Not sure this is a compilation issue anymore...  I think this is a DOS 
> issue...  By default DOS has an ASCII table with all of the characters 
> (or most - some newer Windows ones would not be supported).  This sounds 
> like it has something to do with the fact that Lynx does not know what 
> to do (in the case of the language).  I think the configuration 
> defaulting to US-ASCII is hinting that it is pickup the default ASCII 
> table. But the problem is that it is using "7 bit approximation" 
> (whatever the hell that means...)  Somehow this is leading to the wrong 
> characters mapping to the wrong ASCII values.

DOS does.  But what's running in Windows isn't DOS, and will behave 
differently.

fwiw

(Code Page Identifiers)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317756(VS.85).aspx

(CHCP)

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/chcp.mspx?mfr=true

The latter doesn't hint that Unicode codepage is supported in Windows.

Lynx doesn't detect the codepage for the Windows port - that would be
something useful to submit a patch for.

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