Re: LYNX-DEV Charset names in ac105

[Foteos Macrides]

Hynek Med <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, [KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ× wrote:
>
>> I am not against aliasing, but canonical name you suggest should reflect
>> standards or most common practice at least, this rule is broken now.  F.e. 
>> if you press ^A to choose charset, it suggest to choose non-existent
>> cp1251 instead of commonly used and standard windows-1251. I not see even
>> one page which use cp1251 as name. Suggesting to choose incorrect
>> (aliased) name leads no nonsense, since user can mark his pages with this
>> charset which will broke other browsers. 
>
>I completely agree with Andrej. I wonder what Content-type: xxx/yyy; 
>charset=zzz lynx uses for mailing is when you have cp1250 selected as your
>Display character set. I hope the zzz is Windows-1250 and not cp1250.. 

        Follow the "Bug fixes" link in:

        http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release/

which takes you to:

        http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/fote/patches/

and read the BUGFIXES file for 272fixes.zip

        Sigh...  released for just one week, not yet updated at
"Lynx links" nor announced, and bug fixes already...

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