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

[Jacob Poon]

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.