Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA

[Leonid Pauzner]

1-Feb-99 12:08 Jacob Poon wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

>> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
>> > 29-Jan-99 19:41 Jacob Poon wrote:
>> >
>> > > Not when the page uses non-escaped Unicode character sets (eg: UCS-2,
>> > > UCS-4), which uses the first 32 byte values.
>> >
>> > Such pages not supported by lynx in any case, not only forms.
>>
>> Right.  And if support for documents *tranmitted* in those
>> (non-)encodings were added, they would have to be transformed to
>> something else before lynx could do any displaying.

> Currently, that will mean Windows-based Unicode web pages will be in
> trouble, because Win32 applications use UCS-2 encoding by default.

There are two different subjects: web page in Unicode
(not UCS-2 but actually UTF-8 encoded)
and lynx' internal representation of the loaded page
(in "display character set" actually).
Now you call an external editor: it is assumed that the editor
works properly with plain text in "display character set",
it is a reasonable assumption that your editor compatible
with your current font (try another editor if it is not true).

What kind of trouble do you mean
and what "Windows-based Unicode web pages" is for you?