lynx-dev x-transparent (was Re: CJK broken in Lynx 2.8.2dev.17)

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> 9-Mar-99 20:40 Nelson Henry Eric wrote:
> 
> > I have no recollection of when or why "Transparent" got into my
> > lynx.cfg file.  "x-transparent" does not work, either, however.

"Transparent" probably acts like "Blahblah" when used as an
ASSUME_CHARSET, it's unrecognized as a MIME charset name, in contrast
to "x-transparent".  None of them are really registered charsets of
course.

> IMO, x-transparent may be useful for "display charset" to see everything 
> "raw",
> but seems useless for "document charset" of any kind. No?

The idea was that translating x-transparent -> any-display-charset
should more or less have the same effect as any-MIME-charset ->
"Transparent".  Not that I thought this very useful, but the
simplifying assumption that every possibly display character sets
(even a pseudo one like "Transparent") corresponds to one MIME charset
made it necessary to have *some* behavior if this pairing occurs, and
this seemed to be the most logical choice.

    Klaus