Re: [Lynx-dev] French accents

[Kristopher Kycia]

Well from the following page (W3Schools):

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

Western ISO-8859-1 defines all the "extended" characters using either 
numeric or alphanumeric entities (é ç etc.).  So from this 
HTML RELIABLE reference, I am using the correct character set for French 
characters.

Now why Lynx (with the correct settings) is not displaying correctly, I fail 
to understand.

Someone has replied saying it MIGHT have something to do with the 
BUILD/COMPILATION.  Maybe so, however I find it VERY ODD that a DISTRO which 
has a DEFAULT configuration of Western (ISO-8859-1) DOES NOT WORK.

I mean, THEY MUST HAVE AUTOMATED TEST CASES to pick up on this sort of error 
(wrong display)?  I have gone on other websites (with French) and they all 
display INCORRECTLY the same characters as from my website.  I am a Software 
Developer, so it seems pretty funny that language checking would not be part 
of the test cases ran against a build.  Something DUMB has to be wrong (some 
setting somewhere).

Also pls. no "temporary/alternate" builds that may display some (but not 
most) characters...  This is like visiting your local Toyota dealer and 
saying: "Well the car is fine, however 2% of cars might suffer from a 
defective gas pedal."  You may or may not notice the problem...

Sincerely,


Kristopher R. Kycia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""Sándor Halász"" <address@hidden>
To: "Kristopher Kycia" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] French accents


> > > > > 2010/01/30 00:46 -0500, Kristopher Kycia >>>>
> My Lynx Display Character Set is "Western (ISO-8859-1)" and the assumed 
> document character set is "iso-8859-1" with raw 8-bit "ON".
> <<<<<<<<
> Is it really true that for you the right display character set is 
> ISO-8859-1 and not windows-1252 or cp437. Seems unlikly to me; I use Lynx 
> under Windows and for me the right display character set is cp437. I use 
> windows-1252 for printing to file.