Re: lynx-dev including/excluding charsets (was: CPU problems connecting to a site)

[T.E.Dickey]

> > > Is the opposite logic possible, include all _but_ the following?  
>  
> On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
> > it's doable - not as written, but making similar logic - 
> > but I thought the small-subset was more useful. 
>  
> Well, having to list all charsets to be included requires the users 
> (installer) to know which are necessary for reasonable operation.  A 
> lot of folks using this feature may get that wrong.  I *think* without 
> at least iso-8859-1, us-ascii, utf-8 (maybe also x-transparent) listed 
> there will be some "interesting" failure modes (not lynx crashing or 
> hanging, but lynx rendering entities etc. in weird ways). 

us-ascii is always listed because of the way the ifdef's are constructed.

> Maybe there should be a --with-charsets=minimal, where minmal is 
> equivalent to a list of charsets (yet to be determined exactly) that 
> are required for minimal "reasonable" behavior. 

something like that, perhaps
  
>    Klaus 


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