Re: lynx-dev lynx: have bug (fwd)

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, YUKSEL TURAN wrote:

> Subject: Re: lynx-dev lynx: have bug (fwd)
> 
> 
> The problem was that the .cgi got Turkish letters in the wrong way (e.g.
>  \336's as TH's, not a %-coded character) and after trying a few browsers 
> with the
> page at http://www.cclub.metu.edu.tr/yarisma/form.html. (You must fill all
> the entries, moreover the entry "e-posta" must have `@' in it.) The CGI
> prints the input to the user as an information.

There is at least one thing wrong with the response page: it has

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso8859-9">

Note missing hyphen in the charset.  It is correct in the form page.
As a result of this, Lynx may think the response page is iso-8859-1
by default, so it translates the bytes that are sent correctly because
they are not correctly labelled.

> Well, -raw worked with charset settings.

It *should* also work without an explicit -raw; the only requirement should
be that the Display character set is set correctly.  Since the form page is
labelled explicitly as iso-8859-9, nothing else should be required.

You could also add an explicit ACCEPT-CHARSET="iso-8859-9" to the FORM
tag.

   Klaus