Re: lynx-dev chartrans: ALT= tag without quotes "..." problem

[Leonid Pauzner]

> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

:)>> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Philip Webb wrote:
> :)
:)>> :)990105 Leonid Pauzner wrote:
:):)>>> I found out a problem with anchore attribute happen without quotes,
:):)>>> namely with ALT= (but also possible with NAME= or HREF=).
:):)>>> By some misterious reason first letter was converted to capital "I",
:):)>>> probably the first letter was not restored from checking for existance
:):)>>> of opening quote on some earlier parsing stage.
:):)>>>  http://www.detki-predki.aha.ru
:):)>>> near the top you got "Iarinka", should be "Marinka" - check '\' for 
source.
:):)>>> (the text is in russian but that doesn't matter)
:)>> :)
> [erased]

> OK, sorry. I should have explained myself better. This is what I saw about
> the I/M effect.

>   As I said before I set my options to

>      Character Set Options
> (***) Assumed document character set   : [iso-8859-1______]
> (***) Display character set            : [Cyrillic (windows-1251)________]
>       Raw 8-bit                        : [OFF]

> and I see the output as (few lines..)

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             This is supposed to be the title ---->    ─х≥ъш ш яЁхфъш (p1 of 2)

>    Encoding ╠рЁшэър
> ------------^^^^^^^-----------------------------------------------------------

> then I press "\" and I see (relevant lines, again)

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> </MAP><IMG align=right alt=Encoding border=0 height=108 src="images/sun.gif" 
> us
> +eMap=#mapsun width=128>
> <IMG align=left alt=╠рЁшэър height=295 src="images/marina1c.gif" 
> width=201></p>
> --------------------^^^^^^^---------------------------------------------------

>  Both look in my terminal the same. Not that I can understand what there
> says. When I set both (***) above to iso-8859-1 the I/M effect appears
> (switching with "\").

>  At this time when I am writting this, both ALT, look the same to me, I
> don't know if your terminal will display them the same when reading this
> report.

>  I don't know what EXP_CHARTRANS_AUTOSWITCH is, I guess by its name that
> it's an automatic switch to the right charset. I had to do this manually
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No, unless you change font generator on your console or in Xterm
(e.g. the shape of each letter, *outside* of Lynx).
You should not change "Display character set" without this,
please read HELP on options menu. (my yesterday's patch
aimed to clarify situation even more).

> until I got the same output. Otherwise, if I'm wrong let me know how can I
> find out about it and report it back.

The document in subject _is_ in windows-1251 charset (check "=" Info Page).
("Assume character set" has no effect when you see the page on-line)
The problem reported from the translation stage, so this is the case
when "Display character set" != windows-1251.
If you set "Display character set" to windows-1251 (whether you change
font shapes or not - it doesn't matter in this case) you just avoid
any translation in lynx, so it is not surprized you see the same output.

Try setting "Display character set" to us-ascii or iso-8859-1
and see what's happen.

>   Thanks,

> Eduardo
> http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/personal.html