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Re: lynx-dev Autoconf patch for S/390 (EBCDIC)


From: Leonid Pauzner
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Autoconf patch for S/390 (EBCDIC)
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 00:07:31 +0300 (MSK)

>      * From: address@hidden

> o I use symbolic instead of numeric constants in many places.
>   I consider some of this merely good coding practice, such as:

>       CH_ESC  instead of  27
>           ' ' instead of  32 (or 040 or 0x20)
>       CH_NBSP instead of 160
>       CH_SHY  instead of 173

>   with the names defined in a header file.  I couldn't do this
>   uniformly -- at some points expanding numeric entities, the
>   numeric use must remain.  And 160 is a particular nuisance:
>   "ch == 160" is probably a test for CH_NBSP, while "ch >= 160"
>   is probably a test for the high range of control characters,
>   for which I defined a different symbol, CH_HICTL.
                                            ^^^^^^^^
Character sets currently recognized by Lynx has "LYlowest_eightbit" value
which is used for testing of control characters (see chrtrans/*.h files:
e.g. windows-xxxx usually have this value at 129).
And ISO-8859-x have explicitely "UCT_ENC_8859" encoding
which assumes controls at <160.



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