Re: Lynx & special characters

[lcornel@cello.gina.calstate.edu (Louis C Cornelio)]

hello all! Did everyone miss this inquiry; odd that _nobody_ would take a 
stab at it, given the high level of expertise out there!



perhap a related question, if the problem has to do with the video display.
What does anyone know about the Spanish language capable IIc that was 
marketed south of the border & how did it differ from our IIc here? There 
was even a Spanish Language version of Appleworks!

- Louis



background detail & questions below:



> 
> Anyone have any experience getting Spanish characters on the www using 
> Lynx & ProTerm 3.1 w/an Apple II? A bit of background:
> 
> Louis C Cornelio (lcornel@cello.gina.calstate.edu) wrote:
> : I visit several www sites in Spanish, but doen't get the correct
> : characters displayed. Any idea why or how to remedy? One hint from a
> : person who runs such a page:
>  
> : :        if characters with a binary equivalent value of greater than
> : :        128 get stripped out, then you won't get the correct display.
> --
> Lynx should do all that for you.  The Apple 2's were the only popular
> PC's (I know of) that set the 8th bit for text sent to the display...but
> that's kid's stuff compared to the bizarre array of "soft swithches"
> used to access special video features and memory above 48K. As far as I
> know, all the Apple 2 implementations of the vt100 terminal emmulation
> standard involved some fudging that left the platform less than rock
> solid in www's hypertext environment.  I'd suggest changing terminal
> programs or trying your program from a different A2.  A different video
> driver could solve the problem.....
>