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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx ported to Win32 and charsets...


From: Christopher R. Maden
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx ported to Win32 and charsets...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:04:50 GMT

[Even Holen]
> I've just downloaded the port of Lynx for Win32 and started out to
> test it and very soon I've discovered that this version didn't
> respect my keyboard settings.
> 
> I'm living in Norway and uses a default locale of Norwegian(bokmal)
> with Norwegian layout of keyboard. But when using Lynx it seems to
> think that I'm using some sort of american keyboard...

What version of Windows are you using?  How did you set up your
keyboard?  (Did it just work in Norwegian "out of the box"?)

I am using Windows 95, and in the Keyboard control panel, the language
"English (United States)" is associated with keyboard layout "United
States-Dvorak".  While the DOS shell does not pick that up, Lynx is
definitely aware that I'm using a Dvorak keyboard.

What does your Keyboard control panel show for Language and General?
(If using Windows 95 - if not, what are the applicable values from the
NT control panel?)

> In addition to this it doesn't display iso-8859-1 characters
> properly.  (This I guess is rather a problem with the
> console-windows then with Lynx...) I tried changing (using the
> options menu) to display PC character set, but that didn't function
> well enough. The ø (as a html entity) was displayed as the
> cent sign. And the Ø was displayed as the Yen sign.
> 
> A rephrase of the last one is that I want to be able to pick/use
> fonts which correctly display iso-8859-1! (Or which converts to the
> appropriate Windows font) Generally some of the monospace TrueType
> fonts will do. (Right now I'm using FixedSys and/or Courier New
> (both with subsetting Western) in my telnet session, and it displays
> iso-8859-1 correctly...)

You can't really switch fonts in DOS (well, you can sort of, but not
character sets); you're stuck with the IBM code page for your locale.
What did you set your "display (C)haracter set" to in the (o)ptions
page?  I'm using "IBM PC character set", and all of the lower-case
accented characters are displayed correctly.  Ø and ø,
unfortunately, are not part of the US IBM character set.  Lynx
approximates ø with a phi, and Ø as a capital O.

Does Norwegian DOS use a different codepage?  (I would hope so, for
the slashed O.)  Lynx probably needs some minor work to support that
code page.  Klaus?

-Chris
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