Re: lynx-dev lynx and other character sets

[Roozbeh Pournader]

David Woolley wrote:

> It translates from the document character set to the declared display
> character set, within the limitations of the latter, and with some
> ability to override the former for those pages where (an implied)
> ISO 8859/1 really means my favourite local character set.  It may
> also be configurable to cope with cases where an explicit CP-1252
> means the font mapping of my favourite Windows font, but I think it
> may honour the explicit character set instead.
> 
> It is limited to the character sets for which people have written
> translation tables.

Two things here:

1. How can I add a character set to lynx?

2. What do you mean by display character set? Where is it defined? In a 
terminfo database
or similar? What should I do if I want to define a display myself to support my 
character set?

> Note that <BDO and dir= are not necessary for bidirectional text in
> HTML4; the browser is expected to know the natural direction for
> every Unicode character which has a unique direction (HTML is always
> Unicode from an internal processing point of view) and to honour Unicode
> direction overrides.  It is probably desirable to have dir= on the HTML
> tag to allow for direction neutral characters (it is also reccommended
> to have lang=, but I never see it!)
> 
> BDO is only needed for material where characters of well defined
> directionality violate the Unicode rules.
> 
> The point here is that most of the complexity arises from bi-directional
> text, not from the associated HTML elements and attributes.

Aha! So is there any schedule to do this? We need this, and I think I can find
some volunteers here in Iran to add anything that will be needed for Persian 
support.
If only it's not that much hard...  Will you help?  We are GNU fans, and among
the few Iranians who are fighting for software freedom, so it will be all nice.

> (Linux can be put into Unicode mode, but can only display
> the subset corresponding to the loaded code page; I don't think that
> it does BIDI.)

I can't understand. You are talking about a TERMINAL supporting bidi?

> I'm not aware of anyone interested in Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, or to
> the extent that it is not covered by Japanese support, Chinese.

I am now in the list, and I will do somethings for BIDI if I can get to it.
I will try to attract other Iranians also...

--roozbeh