fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) (03/22/88)
In article <3aa84fac.b8ab@apollo.uucp> rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) writes: >I've been playing around with 8-bit fonts, specifically Latin-1 fonts. >The uucp transport layer is 8-bit transparent, and so is readnews. >If you make one small change to inews, you can use 8-bit fonts too >(assuming your system supports them). >It's kind of neat to read through >news articles and see all the accent marks on French names. ' Hmmm. It's more than neat... For people up here in Quebec, it's actually quite useful and interesting. >How widespread and how standard is Latin-1 for expression of international >characters? Someone from Europe want to comment? Well, this is not Europe, but a group of people around here are starting to toy with the idea of exchanging news and mail locally in ISO-Latin-1. A special header (X-Character-Set: ISO-Latin-1 ??? Any other suggestions???) would be used and the news would be translated to whatever character set the local machine uses when it is displayed (for example, on an IBM PC-type of machine or a DEC VT-220, you can represent some of the ISO-Latin-1 characters). Not being able to put accents in texts is a real pain when you're typing texts in French: a bit like typing English without descenders (imagine: it would be ouite oainful to have to oet bu without descenders :-). q p g y (Oh, by the way, Microsoft Windows uses ISO-Latin-1 internally.) >Rn apprently strips the high bit somewhere. I haven't delved into it yet. Sigh. Hopefully there's a quick fix. > But here's the fix for inews (your line numbers will vary): Thanks. -- Denis Fortin | fortin@zap.UUCP CAE Electronics Ltd | philabs!micomvax!zap!fortin The opinions expressed above are my own | fortin%zap.uucp@uunet.uu.net