Re: LYNX-DEV did something happen to <img alt="xxx"> ??

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> However: do you have any older version of Lynx which behaves different for
> this exact same WITHMETA.html?  It seems to me Lynx behaves in this case
> like it did before.

Correct.  WITH a META tag, fm-97/07/05, ac-0.60, ac-0.74 and ac-0.76 all
act as I described on that page in the same manner as ac-0.75.

Without a META tag, ac-0.74 renders neither the SJIS nor the EUC strings
correctly when they are in ALTs (as positioned on that page).  The rendered
"characters", i.e., not ascii, are different from SJIS and EUC.  Only ac-0.74,
then, had the "bug".

> Now for the fun part:  your "dreaded SJIS" ALT text is the very first

Okay, I'll try these things this weekend.

> The reason for what you'll observe seems to be that the
> Japanese-encoding-guessing forgets what it has figured out each time when
> a ' ' (SPACE character) is encountered (not in the input document, but in
> the rendered text).  Before the very first ' ' the charset parameter has
> an effect, after that it gets forgotten.

Interesting.  SPACE is a kind of "cure-all" for Japanese.  I always use
spaces to separate Japanese characters and ascii alphanumerics when I mix
them on the same line to avoid occasional garbling (not Lynx; e-mail/news).
That's why I didn't even consider running the three encoding types together.

> I don't know what is the best way to change this - does it need fixing?

If it does need fixing, there are good programmers here (though none of
them have any time, it seems).

> encoding is implied by the META tag, or should it completely ignore it?

Ignoring might be better since automatic sensing is built into the conversion
functions, and they are probably more "intelligent" than the average web-page
maker.

__Henry
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