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Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA
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Leonid Pauzner |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 10:09:57 +0300 (MSK) |
1-Feb-99 16:41 Jacob Poon wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
>> 1-Feb-99 12:08 Jacob Poon wrote:
>> > 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?
> The problem is, since most Windows programs store messages with UCS-2
> encodings, if I try to capture the texts and publish them into web pages
> (eg: quoting from error logs), I may be unknowingly copying UCS-2 encoded
> messages instead of UTF-7/8 data, simply because the effect is invisible.
> When I save those pages from the editors and publish them, Lynx will be
> unable to see them.
> In other words, because UCS-2 is handled transparently under Win32, users
> may forget to convert such documents into UTF-7/8 encoding, making such
> pages unviewable under Lynx.
Well, Lynx for Win32 is a console application, not a GUI,
it uses font from DOS 8bit codepages so it is expected the editor
is compatible with 8bit DOS text. Yes, you should care of.
> I have not found a web page using UCS-2 encoding (yet), but I found a text
> file encoded with UCS-2 encoding that is not compatible with Lynx
> (2.7.2)'s UNICODE UTF-8 Display Character Set. Under Lynx, it pads each
> English letter with the annoying 'U00' word. It is located at:
> http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Battlefield/3605/srwffaq.txt
> However, the text is viewed correctly under Netscape 4.x, except the
> annoying double line feed.
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Jacob Poon, 1999/02/01
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Dick Wesseling, 1999/02/01
- lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/02/02
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- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/02/02
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Klaus Weide, 1999/02/02
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/02/02
- lynx-dev warn on reloading (was fixup patch), Philip Webb, 1999/02/02
- lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/02/02
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/02/03
- lynx-dev finding lynx.cfg and editor keys, Mark E. Crane, 1999/02/03