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authorThomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>1998-11-16 23:10:22 -0500
committerThomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>1998-11-16 23:10:22 -0500
commit2a2566112749f0e3f932004c1a9d8345a84b1fd0 (patch)
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downloadlynx-snapshots-2a2566112749f0e3f932004c1a9d8345a84b1fd0.tar.gz
snapshot of project "lynx", label v2-8-2dev_3
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-rw-r--r--lynx_help/keystrokes/option_help.html7
-rw-r--r--lynx_help/keystrokes/test_display.html53
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diff --git a/lynx_help/keystrokes/option_help.html b/lynx_help/keystrokes/option_help.html
index fad258c5..2bdbcf2a 100644
--- a/lynx_help/keystrokes/option_help.html
+++ b/lynx_help/keystrokes/option_help.html
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ for beginners.
 
 <H1><A NAME="VB">Verbose Images</A></H1>
 
-Controls whether or not Lynx replaces the [LINK], [INLINE] and [IMAGE] comments 
+Controls whether or not Lynx replaces the [LINK], [INLINE] and [IMAGE] comments
 (for images without ALT) with filenames of these images.  This is extremely
 useful because now we can determine immediately which images are decorations
 (button.gif, line.gif) and which are important.
@@ -225,8 +225,9 @@ The display character set provides a mapping from the character encodings
 of viewed documents and from HTML entities into viewable characters.
 It should be set according to your terminal's character set
 so that characters other than 7-bit ASCII can be displayed correctly,
-using approximations if necessary.  You must have the selected character set
-installed on your terminal.  Since Lynx now supports a wide range of platforms
+using approximations if necessary,
+<A HREF="test_display.html">try the test here</A>.
+Since Lynx now supports a wide range of platforms
 it may be useful to note that cpXXX codepages are used within IBM PC computers,
 and windows-xxxx within native MS-Windows applications.
 
diff --git a/lynx_help/keystrokes/test_display.html b/lynx_help/keystrokes/test_display.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/lynx_help/keystrokes/test_display.html
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+<TITLE> Quick test for identifying display character set</TITLE>
+</HEAD>
+<BODY>
+<h1 ALIGN=LEFT>Try this page with Lynx 2.7.2 or above:</h1>
+
+If you see several letters instead of a single - your promised display charset
+does not support this character so "7 bit approximation" is in effect.
+If you see any single letter which definitely far from being supposed
+you have a wrong lynx settings.
+<em>Press 'o' for Options menu and change "Display character set"</em>.
+Try again if necessary.<br>
+When you are satisfied save your changes in Options menu, thanks.
+<PRE>
+
+
+0x00A9    &#x00A9;           # COPYRIGHT SIGN
+
+0x00C7    &#x00C7;           # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
+
+0x00DC    &#x00DC;           # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
+
+0x00D1    &#x00D1;           # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
+
+0x0107    &#x0107;           # LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
+0x0108    &#x0108;           # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
+0x010C    &#x010C;           # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
+
+
+0x03BB    &#x03BB;           # GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA
+
+0x041B    &#x041B;           # CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL
+0x042E    &#x042E;           # CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YU
+0x043B    &#x043B;           # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL
+0x044E    &#x044E;           # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU
+
+0x2026    &#x2026;           # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
+0x2122    &#x2122;           # TRADE MARK SIGN
+
+0x255D    &#x255D;           # BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE UP AND LEFT
+0x255E    &#x255E;           # BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND RIGHT DOUBLE
+
+0xFB01    &#xFB01;           # LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI
+
+
+
+</PRE>
+This is only a quick test to see obvious problems.
+
+
+</BODY>
+</HTML>