Re: lynx-dev Display of SGML Greek Math entities -- solution

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:37:43AM -0700, Matt Ackeret wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Henry Nelson wrote:
> >> Until I get some terminals going that use these non-8-bit
> >
> >While it may seem as though I missed your point, I suspect likewise
> >you missed mine.  Namely, in this day and age, a computer running an
> >OS that _can't_ display Greek letters and a variety of other symbols
> >is almost unheard of.
> 
> "in this day and age"?
> 
> Umm, isn't one of the purposes of Lynx to work on plain ASCII terminals?
> (including terminal emulators)
> 
> So it seems to me that there are very many people using lynx that can't
> display those symbols.  Heck, I don't know what text encoding I'd have
> to change this Terminal window to to make sure the chars showed up the
> way you're expecting.

He didn't mention it, I did notice.  The window says it's Tera Term, which
I thought is an emulator running on M$.  So the comment about NetBSD leaves
me puzzled.

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