Re: SIS browser

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 4 Dec 2000 13:51:03 GMT, Geraldine.A.Wright.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
(Geraldine Wright) wrote:

>I am using the SIS browser along with the developmental add-on which 
>allows web pages to be downloaded and displayed directly from TCP/IP, 
>without using a dialup shell account. While there are many pages it 
>doesn't handle, I can get it to display a number of fairly simple pages. 
>My question is about getting it to display foreign characters correctly. 
>If a foreign character is encoded using low ascii, for example à, 
>it handles it okay. But if a site has the actual high ascii character in 
>it, SIS displays the character dictated by the IIgs character coding 
>scheme. Since this is different that the standard that is used for most 
>international communications, the character is not displayed correctly. Is 
>there a way to force SIS to put such characters through a character filter 
>prior to displaying it?

I'm not sure if you tried posting this to Delphi or not but the
authors of Spectrum and Spectrum Internet Suite, Ewen Wannop and Geoff
Weiss, both participate over there and would be best qualified to
answer your question.

However, one thing you could try is to set up a character filter
yourself.  Go to the Character Filter... menu item in the Settings
menu and click the Filter Editor... button.  You'll want to add a
table in this dialog box and then add the translations to any of the
high ASCII characters you wish to have translated.

Click the Done button and then select that table in the Display menu
and click OK.  Start SIS and see if that helps.

If that doesn't help you might need to create a simple script to start
SIS for you to set up that Display translation table.  You just need
to use the Set DisplayFilter command with whatever table number you
created and then do a Chain command to start SIS.  Here is a script
which assumes your display translation table is table number 1.

     Set DisplayFilter 1
     Chain Start.SIS

By the way, using this script is probably the best way to go if this
fixes things for you because it will make sure you don't forget to
change the Display translation before starting SIS.

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