Re: LYNX-DEV ac81 chartrans problems

[Leonid Pauzner]

Thanks.
Klaus you are the rare person on the list
who *very constructive* in replies.

Wrong input of E0 is a well-known problem
for many "international" or "russified" DOS programs.
I have no idea where it come from.



> On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
>
> > > > 1) if I fill up the input form from keyboard
> > > > few characters in cyrillic not displayed properly (cp866 keyb&display):
> > > > cyrillic small "p" replaced by "/"
>                                      ^^^
> > http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/form.html
> > document charset koi8-r, four letters above
> > in cp866 have codes E0, A0, 97, 9B in HEX respectively.

> now.  I could not reproduce your problem with E0.  That may be
> something specific to the DOS/Windows problems.  Somebody else
> needs to look at that.  I note the following section in LYgetch()
>
> #ifdef DOSPATH
>         if (c == 0) c = '/';
>         if (c > 255) {      /* handle raw dos keys */
>                 switch (c)
>      ...
>
> But I don't know whether that has anything to do with it.



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