Re: xy/dos/win/ascii

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Bill Troop wrote:
>
> I'm sure this has been asked and answered a million times before, so please
> forgive me, but:
>
> can someone tell me what to do about upper ascii characters in standard Win
> files and XyWrite? For instance, suppose I type something in German or
> French in Notepad/Win. Later, I open that file in XyWrite 4. All the upper
> ascii characters are wrong.
>

That's because Windows uses ANSI, not ASCII--except for XyWin, which
does use ASCII.


> Two questions:
>
> What is XyWrite doing here? Is it some kind of standard DOS handling of
> upper ascii, or is it XyWrite's own thing?
>

See above. XyWrite and DOS handle upper ASCII the same way.


> Is there a VERY SIMPLE filter I can use to switch back and forth between
> these two encoding? I mean without going into WordforWord ? Isn't there
> some 4 or 5 K program that will deal with this? Or perhaps it's built into
> xywwweb, which I haven't really figured out how to use yet? Thanks.

I'm sure you'll hear from the list's Wise Persons about this. I do not
pretend to know.

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Leslie Bialler
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