Subject: Re: What are codepages?
From: Peter Gutowski (petergut@mediaone.net)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2000 - 21:56:36 EDT
On Sunday, July 9, 2000, Andras Kadinger <bandit@freeside.elte.hu> wrote:
>Peter Gutowski wrote:
>>
>> I'll risk betraying my Macintosh roots, but would somebody
>please explain what 'codepages' are, and what they're used for.
>I've always got the sense that it had something to do with
>character encoding, but have no idea how to appreciate and
>evaluate what a sun wrote last month...
>
>Computers in the last few decades (historians would probably cringe at
....
>I hope after this short tour, the above sentence is
>understandable now.
>
>Regards,
>Andras Kadinger
Wow! That was quite an explanation. I'm delighted of course -- I never expected such depth. Thank you.
You mentioned
> user could 'turn pages', change the character
> set displayed with a command
Are there Linux (Windows, Mac..) commands that do that? Are we just talking about file names or text content of files? If I write:
"Gäste kamen und Gäste gingen" (R. Wagner, "Die Walküre", 1. Acte)
...does this look incorrect to you? (Umlauts over a's in Gaste and u in Walkure)
I noticed when looking at Mac files (e.g. "OurLogo/Blk&PMS284.eps") in a terminal window under Linux and that the "objectionable" characters were rendered with a colon (:) followed by 2 hexidecimal digits of that character (same example: OurLogo:2fBlk&PMS284.eps). My afpd (preasun2.1.4-39) seems not to render the "/" as a single charater, but as a trigraph. Is that what a sun means that it's without codepage support?
-- Peter Gutowski / petergut@mediaone.net"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy day." -- Susan Ertz (c. 1894-1985), American Writer
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