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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.16
From: |
Jacob Poon |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.16 |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:09:24 -0500 |
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> 1999-02-08 (2.8.2dev.16)
> * bug fixes for TEXTAREA edit feature - KED
> 3. Replaces any embedded control chars with something printable (I chose a
> "." char, since it is less "intrusive" than some other choices, like "*",
> "+", "#", etc). As with tabs, when some of these chars *are* rendered
> into the TEXTAREA, strange things may happen. This shouldn't be much of
> a
> limitation, since many of these chars perform line-editing or
> system/job-control functions, when entered directly while one is in the
> TEXTAREA. They currently cannot be "escaped" and entered as actual text
> chars, so far as I can tell. Anyway ... I don't know of any
> "legitimate"
> reason for them to be used as TEXTAREA data, so for now, you get "dots"
> in
> their place.
This may cause trouble with multibyte encoded characters. UCS-2, UCS-4,
and UTF-16 are affected by it. But since Lynx does not support these
encodings (yet), these problem are not pervalent. Nevertheless, the
documentation should issue a warning to people who want to add support for
the encodings in question, or when using external editors that depends on
unsupported encodings.