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• 2.2.1 Character Sets
• 2.2.2 Links' Character Sets

2.2.1 Character Sets

Your system's support for a character set depends upon whether the appropriate codepage has been compiled into your operating system kernel or if it is available as a module. So if you wish to display Russian Cyrillic characters:

• your kernel needs to support the chosen codepage,
• your terminal has to be able to render the characters, and
• you need to change two settings in Links.

The first Links settings for character sets are accessed from your Setup --> Character set submenu option. Select the appropriate character set for your terminal, and press return or click it with a mouse. Return to the Setup submenu and select or click on "Save options" (or press the <ESC>-s-s key sequence).

For more information about setting your system's character set, see Linux terminal's setfont(8) or consolechars(8). For the X Window System, the manpages xterm(1x), xfontsel(1x), xlsfonts(1x) and the file <root>/fonts/misc/fonts.alias will be of use.

If you are not sure which character set to use, see the table below [2.2.2]. It has a short description of each character set, along with links to web pages (in English) for more information.

The second Links settings is under the View --> Assume Character Set submenu option. This option forces the display of web pages using a default (or "assumed") character set for web pages which do not contain the element and attributes

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">,
   where "ISO-8859-1" is the character set used by the author of the page.

Select again your preferred character set, and press enter or click. Return to the same submenu, and click / press enter on the "Set default" option. Or more quickly, press this key sequence: <ESC>-v-a-d.

2.2.2 Links' Character Sets

Codepage	Name	Description:	More Info:
us-ascii	7-bit ASCII	"The common denominator of all modern character sets..."	Info: <ISO-646>
ISO-8859-1	Latin-1	Most West European languages.	Info: <ISO-8859-1>; Table: <ISO-8859-1>
ISO-8859-2	Latin-2	Central and eastern Europe languages (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian).	Info: <Latin-2 Resources>
ISO-8859-5	Cyrillic	Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and pre-1990 Ukrainian.	Info: <ISO-8859-5> and <Cyrillic>
windows-1250	Window$ 1250	M$ equivalent to Latin-2	< Java Entwicklung >
windows-1251	Window$ 1251	Latin+Cyrillic
cp437	DOS_LatinUS to Unicode	(US-ascii)
cp850	DOS_Latin-1 to Unicode
cp852	DOS_Latin-2 to Unicode
cp866	DOS_CyrillicRussian		<DOS/Windows codepages> and <Cyrillic>
cp1125	IBM Ukraine (PC)
x-mac-ce	Mac latin 2	Czech character set.
x-kam-cs	Kamenicky Brothers	Czech character set.
koi8-r	K018-R	RussianCyrillic+Latin	<Cyrillic>
koi8-u	K018-U	UkrainianCyrillic+Latin

Copyright (C) 2000 Cliff Cunnington, <cliff@ccnet.demon.nl>

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