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

[Jacob Poon]

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Kim DeVaughn wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 29, 1999, Jacob Poon (address@hidden) said:
> |
> | 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).

This may still represent some problems.  For example, if the encoding of
externally edited file depends on byte values 0x00 to 0x1F (eg: UCS-2) as
part of encoding, some text data may get lost. 

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

Not when the page uses non-escaped Unicode character sets (eg: UCS-2,
UCS-4), which uses the first 32 byte values.