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Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> schrieb:
> In comp.unix.questions David <David.Cor*king@irl.dupont.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyone know how to access French characters on a Windows 95 PC (for
> > example sending email using MS Internet Mail) so that it appears in a
> > standard manner on PCs, UNIX, Mac and others?

Just type them (with Alt+XXX), MS Internet(?!) News will do the rest.

> > A French-speaking colleague sent me French email ok which arrived on
> > my Digital All-in-One account with all the alphabet except C cedilla
> > intact.

Probably the cedialla is not in the codepage of your Digital machine,  
so the newsreader decided to replace it by another character.

> > But I don't know how to reply to him in same manner with
> > either All-in-One or Win95, except by copying and pasting the relevant
> > characters from his email.

With Win 95, start the character table, which also shows the shortcuts  
to type them in Windows. MS Internet News should automatically mark  
the mail correctly as iso-8859-1. (Conversion is not necessary)

> In most dos/mswindows apps you can enter foreign characters in
> the 128-255 decimcal range (extended ascii) usually by holding
> down the Alt key and typing the decimal equivalent of the character
> on the numeric keyboard.

Extended ASCII?

> To know what key to type, you need a map of the character set in use.
>
> In the United States the default character set for Intel machines
> is Microsoft code page 437; in Europe and Canada it's 850.

This is true for DOS. Windows usually uses ANSI 1252 (Windows  
multilingual) in West Europe, which is a superset of iso-8859-1.

> Most of
> the French characters are in the same place in both, but the accented
> capital letters are at different locations.  Whether the recipient
> can read what you input depends on what code page they're running.

The
>
> If both parties are using iso-latin-8859-1, that's great; but
> Windows 95 doesn't seem to have an explicit way to set this code
> page, although it may be there.

It is the default for Windows applicatons.

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