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author | Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> | 1998-11-06 16:18:09 -0500 |
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committer | Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> | 1998-11-06 16:18:09 -0500 |
commit | 18024037b515bfff83e0230b35151babe6005e18 (patch) | |
tree | b8c80055282a00883284722a3dd6bb25234e07f0 /docs/IBMPC-charsets.announce | |
parent | 3d8ecbe48af249fa0d77ce4d273e32ce4b7e6e18 (diff) | |
download | lynx-snapshots-18024037b515bfff83e0230b35151babe6005e18.tar.gz |
snapshot of project "lynx", label v2-8-1dev_4
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diff --git a/docs/IBMPC-charsets.announce b/docs/IBMPC-charsets.announce index 3e6aa639..870abe5b 100644 --- a/docs/IBMPC-charsets.announce +++ b/docs/IBMPC-charsets.announce @@ -9,11 +9,10 @@ General Information =================== Lynx comes with built-in translation tables to map the 8-bit character codes or character entities coming in from an HTML document to their equivalent codes, -where possible, for various character sets. - -IMPORTANT: you should choose display character set in Lynx Options Menu -according to your font installed locally. Probably it would be cpXXX. Please -contact lynx-dev mailing list if you want any new codepage not listed there. +where possible, for various character sets. You should choose display +character set in Lynx Options Menu according to your font installed locally. +Please contact lynx-dev mailing list if you want any new codepage not listed +there. Note that all points of the connection between the display at your end and Lynx at the remote end must be 8-bit clean. If the high bit is being stripped at @@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ you're not. If you see box and line-drawing characters and mismatched letters and so on, you are likely displaying 7 bit data, not 8. Ensure that all points of your connection are 8-bit clean: - On any remote UNIX systems you must pass through, do + On any remote UNIX systems you must pass through, do 'stty cs8 -istrip' or 'stty pass8'. 'stty -a' should list your settings. On any remote VMS systems, do 'set terminal /eightbit'. @@ -63,9 +62,9 @@ of your connection are 8-bit clean: 8 bit, some 8-bit character sequences, including those passed by Lynx as well as those which are for your terminal type (vt100, etc.) will be processed by Procomm as ANSI screen - control codes and will most likely result in a garbled display. + control codes and will most likely result in a garbled display. Set it to 7 bit. - If going through a dialup terminal server, you may have to set the + If going through a dialup terminal server, you may have to set the terminal server itself to pass 8 bit data. How to do this varies with the make of the server, and in some cases only a system admin in charge of the box will have the authorization |