Re: LYNX-DEV Minor display problem

[Hynek Med]

On Fri, 2 May 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> If this is a case where folk are inserting these special characters
> directly into the page, it would be interesting to see how lynx coped
> if the characters were properly encoded in the &#[0-9]+; format.

The trouble is, that these are not considered to be anything "special" for
Windows-encoding users. These are just normal - usually accented -
characters in a Windows-xxxx encoding. It looks Windows-xxxx encodings use
special characters area for normal characters. 

In the current development version, lynx - probably as the only browser -
understands ISO-8859-2 entities like ž . So, to answer your
question, if the folks used entities like &something; , yes, lynx would
get it right, provided lynx knows these entities - currently only
ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2. 

BTW, perhaps some of the cyrilic users could add the HTML entities for
cyrilic to HTMLDTD.c..

Hynek

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