Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx eats characters in form submission

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Hi,
>
> if I enter some special characters in a form submission field,
> they are "eaten" and replaced by others. For example,
> … -> ...
> ☑ -> X
>
> If I use some other browser to submit them (to phpBB), they're
> transmitted correctly and show up as … and ☑, re-
> spectively, if I edit that posting, so phpBB seems to receive
> and convert unicode (UTF-8 encoded) characters correctly.
>
> Why is lynx doing the conversion to "7-bit approximations",
> even if the display AND site charsets are utf-8?

because the line-editing code needs a rewrite...

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net