charset for accented characters

[Brian]

Despite charset being discussed to death, and despite having followed
all of those threads, I still have problems.

http://www.tsmchughs.com/recipes/soda-bread

This page uses iso-8859-1 charset. From the headers:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Under ingredients are characters for fractions (188, 189, and 190) and
the degree character (176), characters which Lynx can display on
http://www.obviously.com/browsers/iso-8859-1.html
However, Lynx does not display the one half character on my soda-bread
page. What have I done wrong?

Then there's accented letters.

http://www.bonfete.biz/
http://www.julietremblay.com/about/philosophy.html

Both of those pages contain accented e (the first has an e circumflex,
the second, e aigu). It's fine in Mozilla, IE/Win, and Opera. But in
Lynx, these letters show us as strange-looking (to me, at any rate)
glyphs. This is true on my pages, and on the browser test page. Is
there anything I should do to fix it?

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Brian
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[Alan J. Flavell]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Andreas Prilop wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Stan Brown wrote:

You need to tell Lynx which character set you're using, via a
setting in the Lynx.cfg file. You didn't tell us anything about your
system, so I have no idea whether my setting
CHARACTER_SET:c p437
will work for you.
The obsolete cp437 is not a good idea since it does not cover all
Latin-1 characters; for example it has no "fraction 3/4".

That's true, and I said much the same. However, if Lynx is running in
a situation where cp437 _is_ the display character set, then you'd get
no benefit from lying about it to Lynx. Either tell it the truth, or,
if feasible, find out how to change the situation in which Lynx is
running.
Better use cp850, which has all characters from Latin-1.

If you have that choice, then indeed it is.

(When I use "putty" to make a connection from Windows to Linux, I can
run Lynx with a utf-8 display charset.)

[Stan Brown]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.44. 0312171732410.1 724-100000@s5b004> in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, Andreas Prilop wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Stan Brown wrote:

You need to use the metric system and forget about silly fractions.

Who are you and what have you done with Andreas?

Hmmm, please note that the International System of Units (SI) is
one of my favourite topics.
<http://groups.google.c om/groups?q=SI+Pri lop>

That's as may be, and I happen to agree with you that the SI makes a
lot more sense than the peculiar system used in the US.

But the OP was asking questions about how to display Web pages that
contain ISO-8859-1 characters 160 through 255. It's hardly helpful
to say that the pages should have different content. That's why I
was sure that someone else had temporarily taken over your account.

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[Stan Brown]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.44. 0312171739220.1 724-100000@s5b004> in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, Andreas Prilop wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Stan Brown wrote:

You need to tell Lynx which character set you're using, via a
setting in the Lynx.cfg file. You didn't tell us anything about your
system, so I have no idea whether my setting
CHARACTER_SET:c p437
will work for you.

The obsolete cp437 is not a good idea since it does not cover all
Latin-1 characters; for example it has no "fraction 3/4".
Better use cp850, which has all characters from Latin-1.

Perhaps you have not seen my article, following up on Alan
Flavell's, in which I report the results of my experiment?

CP437 and CP850 both lack a 3/4 character. But Lynx (in Win98) does
a much worse job when told to display using CP850. At least when
told to use 437 it uses reasonable equivalents for the unavailable
characters; with 850 it displays garbage.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
2.1 changes: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[Andreas Prilop]

Stan Brown <th************ @fastmail.fm> wrote:

Perhaps you have not seen my article, following up on Alan
Flavell's, in which I report the results of my experiment?
It have seen it only later.
CP437 and CP850 both lack a 3/4 character.
cp850 has *all* Latin-1 characters, including "fraction 3/4".
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPIN...T/PC/CP850.TXT
But Lynx (in Win98) does
a much worse job when told to display using CP850. At least when
told to use 437 it uses reasonable equivalents for the unavailable
characters; with 850 it displays garbage.

I didn't mean just to set cp850 in Lynx but to set cp850 as system
code page in Windows 98. This is of course possible, and it is the
default value in all countries with Western languages except the USA,
where Microsoft chose cp437.