Re: [Lynx-dev] Accept types (www.facespan.com)

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 06:07a +0900 03/17/2004, Henry Nelson didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:55:29AM -0800, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>  > "content-type viewing" thread; by setting the charset to
>  > "Transparent", I get the page (although entities are not decoded).
>  > Weird. (Weird from *my* perspective, because I expect pages to
>  > display without having to lose entity rendering.)
>
> I'm not sure of what is meant by "entity",

© or & or ... -- you know, entities.

I just don't see why I have to trade off decoding entities for decoding gzip.
If Lynx can do both, and they are not mutually exclusive, then why?

> but if you want to have
> a recognizable character on your screen, then you'll have to set
> your display character set accordingly.  The only way you'll be able
> to translate "every" character is if you set it to UTF-8.  Again,

Then we need a different solution.

> I'm rather uncertain, but "Transparent" might work as you expect if
> your locale is set "correctly" for the page you're viewing and your
> terminal emulation, or whatever, supports it.

What is that? A Unix thing? Is that some LC_something or other?
I'm not experienced in that sort of thing...


-baffled boo




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