lynx-dev HTmmdecode (was Re: strange interaction with gettext/anonymous/gz)

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:

> It seemed to me that what was happening was that the string was getting
> truncated somewhere, with the result that occasionally a multibyte
> character would get split in a place that would result in a non-ascii
> character that messed up what came after it.  At the time, I thought
> it was because the function seemed to analyze the =?iso-nnnn part only
> one time, whereas in fact it can occur multiple times.  It also seemed
> like it was trying to cut out the =?iso-nnnn part, when it could just
> stay there.  But really my memory has faded a lot.

And so has mine. :)
I'll probably look at it at some point.  I save your message as
an example of the bytes that should be generated (but I can't read any of
it. :) ) 

  Klaus