Re: [Lynx-dev] maclynx -- utf8-ignore and/or update...

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 02:58 p -0400 05/29/2010, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

> On Sat, 29 May 2010, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
> > > Anyway, I kind of wonder if the `Load Internally' thing worked
> > > for him.  Is a bit tedious since it adds an extra step to viewing
> > > any UTF-8 page, but I managed okay.
> >
> > I've wanted to view all sorts of text/* files (CSS, JavaScript, 
> > etc.) in addition to various encodings. I've generally saved to 
> > disk and then opened from there. Never understood why Lynx made me 
> > go through that, as Lynx is so smart in other ways.
>
> There's two different cases:
>
> a) UTF-8 is an encoding that wasn't supported in lynx 2.7.1, so (like some
> CJK encodings still unsupported...), lynx just downloads it.
>
> b) CSS, etc., are different mime types.  In principle, one could lynx
> to pretend they're just a type of plain-text (but that's not always simple).

I guess what I don't understand is, what could possibly go wrong with 
treating unknown text/* as text/plain? Actually I'd like the option 
of viewing any file as text/plain (such as .doc), because various 
"binary" file formats actually contain a lot of plain text plus some 
binary data, and I'm interested in the plain text data. You know, 
kind of like how Lynx sees the important parts of the Web. ;)

-W