Re: lynx-dev tech. question: translating strings to different charsets

[Vlad Harchev]

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > 
> >  I can add that using unicode won't solve the problem (of hyrules collision
> > when trying to hyphenate multilingual documents, say document with german 
> > and
> > english) since unicode doesn't have separate codes for 'german letter f' and
> > 'english letter f' - just "latin capital letter F". 
> 
> You are thinking about it the wrong way.  There is no such thing as a
> "German letter f" as distinct from an "English letter f".  The language-
> specificity has to come in not at the character level.  The algorithm
> (in this case, for hyphenation) has to be language-specific, not the
> data it operates on.

 Reading this message I understood that you meant the hyrules need to be
language-oriented (and that they must be activated depending on the current
language). They of course are. Please look at the lynx.cfg settings I plan to
introduce - seems they are what you meant.

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 Best regards,
  -Vlad