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Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA
From: |
Leonid Pauzner |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:57:00 +0300 (MSK) |
29-Jan-99 19:41 Jacob Poon wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Kim DeVaughn wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 1999, Jacob Poon (address@hidden) said:
>> |
>> | I am wondering, if an external editor is used to edit files in TEXTAREA,
>> | will the unprintable characters get filtered out as well? The reason of
>> | concern is that it is possible that Lynx cannot print the text in
>> | TEXTAREA, but the external reader can (eg: text in TEXTAREA is encoded in
>> | Unicode, and Lynx cannot use the proper font, so external editor is
Lynx does not support raw Unicode 16bit (UCS-2),
it allows UTF-8 instead which is us-ascii compatible and safe,
>> | required to read/write Unicode). If this patch sends a filtered version
>> | of data when launching external editor, Lynx will destroy the TEXTAREA
>> | contents and makes the filtered texts unreadable on any editor, which
>> | partially defeats the purpose of external editing.
>>
>> No filtering is performed in that direction (lynx --> edit file).
>>
>> The filtering is only performed in the other direction (file --> lynx),
>> and is only performed on byte values of x'00' - x'1F' (with TAB's being
>> expanded to spaces, mod 8).
> This may still represent some problems. For example, if the encoding of
> externally edited file depends on byte values 0x00 to 0x1F (eg: UCS-2) as
> part of encoding, some text data may get lost.
>> I think that's OK, WRT Unicode, isn't it ...?
> Not when the page uses non-escaped Unicode character sets (eg: UCS-2,
> UCS-4), which uses the first 32 byte values.
Such pages not supported by lynx in any case, not only forms.
- lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.15, dickey, 1999/01/28
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.15 [typo nit], brian j. pardy, 1999/01/29
- lynx-dev Re: lynx2.8.2dev.15 [typo nit] (and TEXTAREA edit bugs), Kim DeVaughn, 1999/01/29
- lynx-dev [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/01/29
- lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/01/29
- Re: lynx-dev [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Jacob Poon, 1999/01/29
- lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/01/29
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Jacob Poon, 1999/01/29
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA,
Leonid Pauzner <=
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Klaus Weide, 1999/01/30
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Mike Castle, 1999/01/29
- lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/01/30
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [dev.15] fixup patch: edit TEXTAREA, pg, 1999/01/30
Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.15 [typo nit], Larry W. Virden, 1999/01/29
Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.15 [typo nit], dickey, 1999/01/29
Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.15 [typo nit], Larry W. Virden, 1999/01/29