Re: [Lynx-dev] French accents

[David Woolley]

Kristopher Kycia wrote:

> More on the US-ASCII (7 bit approximation):  I looked into this problem 
> until 2 AM yesterday and well it struck me.  Currently Lynx is now using 
> 7 bits to display the webpage.  It is no longer using the top 128 
> characters because most accents are now displayed as the letter itself.  

What top 128 characters?  ASCII only has 95 printable characters, 
including space.  The highest printable code point in ASCII is 126 and 
the highest code point overall is 127.  What US-ASCII (7 bit 
approximation) does is to cause Lynx to use ASCII characters and only 
ASCII characters to achieve a best approximation of a wider character set.
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