Subject: use of ISO-LATIN-1, 8bit, ...

From: [email-masked] (Guy BRAND)
Date: 2 Aug 1994 10:23:02 GMT

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> how do you create/read a message on a unix host that has another
> character set ?

You can remap the keyboard if you have a qwerty and want to use ISO Latin
1 characters. I had to do this on my Silicon Graphics to be able to write
in french, with accents etc. My mailer is Pine 3.89, executed in a xterm
window which is remapped from within the .Xdefaults file. When Pine detects
non US-ASCII fonts in the message you are writing, it changes the
Content-Type: header to the appropriate one (Content-Type: text/plain; 
charset="iso-8859-1" in my case).

> what telnet programs (dos/windows) allow to use 8bit character sets
> and how do they map the characters to their character sets ?

I'm using winsock qvtnet, or wintel for windows without remapping the
keyboard, but it can be done exactly like you do it for X11/Unix based
programs.

There is a very good document written by a canadian, François Yergeau 
([email-masked]) about ISO Latin 1 Charset usage, and keyboard
mapping, but it's in french. Tell me if you're interested...

IMHO !

Cheer up...
GB
 
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Guy BRAND                                         [email-masked]
Centre de Recherche Chimie                             ULP Strasbourg (FRANCE)