Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: progress on dev.10

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >
> > > I made two small fixes, and it seems to work now.
> > >
> > >         ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/lynx2.8.7dev.9k.patch.gz
> >
> > Thanks. Everything is working, except that I use ISO-8859-1 and some pages 
> > don't display accents anymore. An example is http://vascoexpresso.net/
> >
> > Bad: Johnny enumera as suas caractersticas
> > Good: Johnny enumera as suas caracter?sticas
> >
> > I don't think I tested it with 9j, but it works with dev.9.
>
> 9j/9k look at this line
>
>         <?xml-stylesheet href="/ve.css" type="text/css"?>
>
> and because it's saying that it's xml without specifying a charset, assumes 
> it's UTF-8.  (Someone is sure to point out a third case which lets it be 
> "unknown", but that's the way I understood the standards in this area). 
> However, I see the following
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
>
> so I agree there's a conflict to be resolved.
>
> That's this item:
>
> * parse xml processing-instruction to turn on UTF-8 decoding, as well as
>  disable upper/lower case transforming in source view -TD

hmm - I know that lynx is processing both, will have to see why the meta
logic isn't resetting the xml setting.  (This might be a pre-existing bug
that I happened to expose ;-).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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