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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (67)	1/2/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Hello Jack; The standard ASCII set in english is lacking in proper accents for French and most others. Here is a work around. babelfish.altavista.digital.com go there and type the word or words in english, then click translate. The results will include the accents which you can copy to clip board and paste. IE French: Est-ce que bon monsieur de deuil, il un jour si agr‚able, peut j'est-il vous aider avec quelque chose? ---------- Spanish: Buen sir de luto, ‚l es un d¡a tan agradable, puede yo ayudarle con cualquier cosa? ------------------------ Other wise you would need to load. KEYB at stratup which Starts the Keyb program, which configures a keyboard for a specific language. This would be very unhandy and require rebooting to get back to english. ( maybe you can change it back I'm not sure ) any way Keyb is used to configure a keyboard for a language other than United States English. For an introduction to the Keyb program, see the chapter "Customizing for International Use" in the MS-DOS User's Guide. --------------------------------------------- You may enjoy the above url in other ways also. I think loading Keyb would be a real pain unless you needed to do a considerable amount of work in another language. Jim ------------------- Ps : If using netscape use Clrl+N to open a new browser, ( I often run with 2 to 4 copies of netscape open. NOTE This is not the same as opening a second full Netscape from your desk top..that will cause the second netscape to load all the plugins again and use much more memory, were using Ctrl+n gives you a second copy of netscape without using up much memory at all. Also you copy & paste info between browsers with out haveing to change urls..IE you could keep one browser set to the translate page and just hop between them. Also when the internet gets crowded and urls get slow I go to polling several urls at one time. With charts running in one browser, quotes in another, news in a third, and maybe SI in still another. I detest waiting for an overloaded backbone to get information back. ------------------- To many one who reads this, don't try it on a proxy IPS such as AOL..you really need a regular ISP connection. ----------------------- I may add that anyone using AOL needs to know that AOL and other propritory systems use a pageing system to the internet and info only gets refreshed in certain time frames, like getting real time stuff over AOL is a joke. You really get the info from the last time their system updated that page on thier server, ( cache ). On AOL you are locked into thier system which is acting like a middle man to the internet. It blows my mind that people would use AOL, say to try to get real time quotes. Jim

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (67)	1/2/1998 2:59:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Hi Jack, I notice that you've already received some help with additional ASCII code. I notice, curiously, that the table Penni directed you to is somewhat different than mine. Macintosh and Windows ASCII sets are slightly different although this wouldn't account for the differences I saw&#151246 is one example I noticed which Jeff has listed as ÷ I show it to be &#246. I'll list some of the more popular characters. Although it's a standardized &#146puter world, your mileage may vary anyway due to gremlins. &#191, 191 &#192, 192 &#193, 193 &#194, 194 &#195, 195 &#196, 196 &#199, 199 &#200, 200 &#201, 201 &#202, 202 &#203, 203 &#204, 204 &#205, 205 &#206, 206 &#224, 224 &#225, 225 &#226, 226 &#227, 227 &#228, 228 &#232, 232 &#233, 233 &#234, 234 &#235, 235 &#236, 236 &#237, 237 &#238, 238 &#241, 241 &#242, 242 &#243, 243 &#244, 244 &#249, 249 &#250, 250 &#251, 251 &#252, 252 -MrB