on 01/11/02 02:20, Eckhart K=F6ppen at eck1000_at_gmx.net wrote:
> On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 05:43 , Laurent Daudelin wrote:
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>> While doing some testing browsing my web site in NetHopper, I realized
>> that
>> all accented characters on the web site are replaced with other
>> characters.
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>> Why is this happening?
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> Long story:
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> I has similar problems when implementing Raissa. The Newton assumes by
> default that string data that comes over an endpoint like TCP/IP is
> encoded as MacRoman. This can be changed when setting up the data
> connection, there are translation tables for PCRoman (ISO8859), ASCII
> and Wizard (japanese?) encodings. Internally, the Newton uses Unicode
> which is a superset of ISO8859.
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> Now I don't remember exactly how it went, but think that PCRomanEncoding
> didn't work on US devices. It works however on German OS 2.x devices.
> There is a package out there (UniPCMapper) that lets you install other
> mappings and contains the correct PCRoman mapping. Then you'd have to
> patch all applications that suffer from the problem to use the new
> mapping (shouldn't be too hard). This problem is a candidate for the
> patch Paul has already existing (basically, one or two magic pointers
> needs to be added).
Thanks for the explanation, Eckhart. I thought it could be something like
that...
-Laurent.
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