lynx-dev MS-Kermit & accents (was something meaningless)

[Philip Webb]

990617 Doug Kaufmann wrote: 
>> opted to follow his http:// link to the reference
>> about installing a driver to make DOS compatible with ISO-8859-Latin 1.
>> It was simple and worked like a charm.
>> I now get all the foreign (extended ASCII) characters
>> while on the web with Lynx (and any other DOS program),
>> without changing the Lynx display option from Latin 1.
> I use this all the time. It probably isn't needed with MSKERMIT,
> but I started using it before I switched to kermit
> as my preferred communications program.
 
it seems to depend on some graphics capability from the link blurb.
to get non-English accents with MS-Kermit you need simply

  set display 8-bit
  set transf char latin1

Kermit does the translations between ISO & CP automatically,
but you must ensure the 8th bit is kept
& also specify you want translation for file downloading too.  

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