Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:35:46 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:39:37 +0100, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: >> But in code table 437 (Extended IBM) code 233 renders a Greek symbol >> looking a bit like the diametre symbol. (My QEDIT uses 437 character set >> and 437 is in the config.sys of the PC. You might change that to 850 to >> get the right caracters...) > On my computer (and I suspect on all of them) QEDIT displays whatever > character set the DOS is using. > I am running on MS-DOS 6.22 which has only 256 characters in the set. > Your QEDIT that uses a 437 character set must be running on some other > operating system than mine. No I am using character set #437, also known as "extended IBM character set" and it has only 256 characters. > But the thing I don't understand is why there is a difference in Arachne > between reading messages and editing them with the internal message > editor. I noticed that too. E.g. the tab stops are different between editting and reading. The character set Arachne uses is set in arachne.cfg >> MyCharset ISO-8859-1 (looks a bit like char-set #850). Regards, Bastiaan > Since in both cases the characters are different from the DOS's > character set, they must both be internal to Arachne. > So why the difference? > ,-./\ > / \ From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia > \_,-*_/ "Queen City of The South" 35d 01'44"S 138d 32'13"E > v > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- -- This mail was written by a user of the Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --