Re: lynx-dev Re: 8-bit characters in EDITTEXTAREA

[Leonid Pauzner]

11-Feb-99 13:45 Laura Eaves wrote:
>> From: "Leonid Pauzner" <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:22:25 +0300 (MSK)
>>...
>> > The question still remains as to how charsets should be
>> > handled wrt text entry fields.  The most intuitive approach (n my mind)
>> > would be to accept input in assumed charset (which would also be the value
>> > submitted in the form) but translated to display charset for output to
>> > the screen, unless raw mode is ON.
>> > What is your view?
>>
>> The internal Lynx charset (e.g. HText data) is "display charset",
>> it is supposed that your font, keyboard (e.g. for search "/"),
>> and external editor all worked well for this charset.
>> So the form's entry fields are in display charset.
>> When submitting forms, lynx translate input fields back from display charset
>> to the document charset (or assumed... if it was not set explicitely)
>> so the remote server will not receive unexpected encodings.
>> I am using lynx for search engins with cyrillic input text - it works OK.
>> (According to HTML 4.0, there is a possibility to set submitting charset
>> inside <form charset=...> syntax, I hope lynx do this either,
>> though I have not tested the details).

> Perhaps I'm confused.
> It still looks as if input is not accepted in display charset.
> Example: alt135 in my display charset (cp437)   should be c-cedil, but is
> ignored when I enter it in a text entry field, whereas alt231 (c-cedil in
> my assumed charset (iso-8859-1) is accepted and displays as tau (alt231 in
> cp437).

>>...
>> You see the ignorance of alt135 when you enter keys or you got such result
>> back from the remote server' replay?

> I'm not sure.  When I enter alt135 at my shell prompt I get the expected
> chars displayed.  When I enter alt135 in text entry in lynx, it behaves as
> above.

What about Lynx prompt such as "/" search?
Does it ignore your alt135 character or not?

I guess you have keyboard mapped for iso-8859-1 input
but the font for cp437.

> Thanks for your reply.
> --le