Re: LYNX-DEV did something happen to <img alt="xxx"> ??

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> "charset=shift_jis" is the official and preferred designation, according
> to <URL: ftp://ftp..isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets>.
> A look into a recent userdefs.h or lynx.cfg could have told you that this

"Netscape" didn't seem to be responding correctly to any of the three
encodings (always get what looks like Russian) I knew of, so I had gotten
into my head that I wasn't using a "recognized" mime designation.  Thanks
for throwing out the URL; it had gotten buried somewhere.

> But are you sure you are really dealing with Shift-JIS?  Your page with
> mixed encoding seems to mix EUC-JP and ISO-2022-JP, not Shift_JIS and

You could very well be right.  Later today if I can get a couple of
minutes in the lunch hour I'll try to encode what I think is EUC.  If
it's like SJIS, then maybe I have them backwards.

> Why would you use Shift-JIS anyway?  It's a Microsoft invention, I thought
> you were using Unix...

It's the PC my terminal emulator is on.  The PC only knows, has a ROM for,
SJIS and JIS.  It's pretty much useless my talking because I'm totally
confused myself, but it SEEMS like the terminal emulator translates to and
from the SJIS, JIS or 7-bit katakana (this stuff is worse than cobra venom!)
on the PC from and to whatever the LANG environment variable is on the host
(Unix).  On SunOS and Solaris machines "setterm -x SJIS" needs to be defined,
otherwise nothing in Japanese is rendered properly.  I think this is because
LANG was defined somehow/by-someone to be SJIS.  On the FreeBSD machine I
installed myself, SJIS is not supported, and the setting for the terminal
emulator has to be changed to EUC as the translation target (unfortunately,
not something all emulators can do).

I have never understood why I must set the display character set in Lynx
to EUC; it seems like it should be SJIS (which, however, does not work).

(JIS = Japan Industrial Standard?, man, Microsoft owns stock in more
countries than I thought!)

__Henry
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