Re: writing html in Shift_JIS (was: Re: lynx-dev Re: 283dev15 for Win32)

[Hataguchi Takeshi]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Henry Nelson wrote:

> > Henry, we say hanKaku not hanGaku.
> 
> Right.  Amazed you could read it (only because my sendmail has qkc as a
> frontend).  BTW, were you able to read the final "na" of "katakana?"

I had to use nkf with a tricky way.
    % nkf -e your_mail | nkf -S | less
I couldn't find the last "na", which seemed to be dropped.
# I'm sorry this is not concerned with Lynx.

> > Anyway you mean Shift_JIS is wrong because it has code for half width
> > katakana? I guess you think EUC-JP is also wrong by same reason.
> 
> No.  The ambiguous *WAY* Shift_JIS encodes it.  

I see your thought. Thanks.

> Anyway, since you can
> program in c, make Lynx a better guesser.  If you really think Shift_JIS
> is worth something, help Klaus fix the search code, or assure him it is
> working correctly for all code sets.  Thank you.

I would do so if I had enough time and skills...
Anyway I'm going to test the search code this weekend.
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Takeshi Hataguchi
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