Re: lynx-dev stopping when viewing a site

[Leonid Pauzner]

21-Aug-99 19:59 Klaus Weide wrote:

>> > [...]            I don't know whether "Transparent" needs to be handled
>> > specially wrt 'trydefault', or whether all specially handled charsets
>> > can/should fall back if they get so far (to the UCTrans* functions).
>>
>> My conclusion about "Tansparent" vs 'trydefault' was based on that fact:
>> let we have html page with lots of entities like ¥∧&something;
>> then in transparent mode these entities will have no translation
>> so we saw them verbatim, instead old behaviour (before my changes)
>> was based on using 7-bit approximations. IMO CJK behave the same way.

> So you _want_ "Transparent" to translate entities and NCRs.  Do I understand
> that right?
Right. That was 2.7.1ac behaviour.

> I am not sure what _should_ be the behavior - I can accept both choices.
> Especially if it's easy do change in the source code...

Perhaps both could be acceptable.