lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Fri, Jan 29, 1999, Jacob Poon (address@hidden) said:
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| I am wondering, if an external editor is used to edit files in TEXTAREA,
| will the unprintable characters get filtered out as well?  The reason of
| concern is that it is possible that Lynx cannot print the text in
| TEXTAREA, but the external reader can (eg: text in TEXTAREA is encoded in
| Unicode, and Lynx cannot use the proper font, so external editor is
| required to read/write Unicode).  If this patch sends a filtered version
| of data when launching external editor, Lynx will destroy the TEXTAREA
| contents and makes the filtered texts unreadable on any editor, which
| partially defeats the purpose of external editing.

No filtering is performed in that direction (lynx --> edit file).

The filtering is only performed in the other direction (file --> lynx),
and is only performed on byte values of x'00' - x'1F' (with TAB's being
expanded to spaces, mod 8).

I think that's OK, WRT Unicode, isn't it ...?

/kim