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From: Self </lange>
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Subject: Re: Cyrillic characters
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:26:33
Hello, Geoff,
now a few words on viewing cyrillic
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:11:13 +0000
>From: "Geoff Barnard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Cyrillic characters
>
>I have got the .APM for Arachne to allow the system to show Cyrillic
>characters (koi8-r) and that works fine for most things for reading
>e-mails from Russia, and viewing most Russian WWW pages (although I
have
>seen some that clearly use a different character set.
I know this problem from Czech. In DOS and even on the web you get
national characters in different codepages. I suppose, in your case it
is koi8-r, Russian WINDOWS codepage cp1251 and ISO-8859-5. It is not
very practical to change Arachne's entire fonts just because the
actual webpage does not read properly. I think, it is easier
to convert the current page to the right code: I added a button
"Convert to" to the file SAVEAS.AH like this:
<FORM ACTION="file://win2iso.dgi">
Filename: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" ARACHNESAVE NAME="" SIZE=36>
<BUTTON TYPE=SUBMIT><IMG SRC="file://small2.ikn" HEIGHT=18
WIDTH=32> Convert WIN->ISO</BUTTON>
it is almost the same as the "save as" function. But on the way it
calls my favourite conversion utility. In my example the operation
has the name win2iso.dgi and is defined in MIME.CFG
file/win2iso.dgi |@transfer.exe $l $s
reads: convert the last HTML-page displayed into a file with
the name from the input; then view this (converted) page.
The conversion utility must of course know the input and the output
codepage. In my example, I need conversion from cp1250 (WINDOWS
Central European characters) into ISO-8859-2 (the standard for
Central European characters), because I configured Arachne for the
ISO fonts.
This is certainly not the best solution. But I do not know
it better.
Before I write something on editing, please tell me:
- Do you work only in Russian/English context? What languages
(national characters) do you need under DOS and on the web?
- Are you used to a Russian typewriter in daily work or occur Russian
letters just once a year (we used to send just a Christmas and an
Easter letter to the Moscow Partriarchate) ?
- What Russian codepages do you use under DOS (CP866 or KOI-8 or ???)
and on Webpages (cp1251 or ISO-8859-5)?
Greetings from Prague
Christof Lange
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