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Re: lynx-dev Re: 8-bit characters in EDITTEXTAREA


From: Leonid Pauzner
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: 8-bit characters in EDITTEXTAREA
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:53:59 +0300 (MSK)

10-Feb-99 10:38 Kim DeVaughn wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 1999, Ismael Cordeiro (address@hidden) said:
> |
> | I couldn't find any previous report about this problem.
> |
> | When using EDITTEXTAREA, 8-bit characters are "translated" to dots when I
> | quit the editor. If I go back to the editor, the original 8-bit characters
> | appear as dots.

> It shouldn't be "8-bit chars" that get replaced with a ".", but only
> "control chars" (ie, chars with numeric values below a SPACE, in either
> ASCII or EBCDIC).

No, Kim, chars from 128-255 really being translated to dots,
I was checking it with dev16 just now.
They are not control, probably wrong condition (typo).

> It is true that such chars have been replaced with .'s if you reedit
> the TEXTAREA with the external editor, since the temp file cannot be
> reused (you may well have made changes to the text within the TEXTAREA,
> while still in lynx itself, which need to be reflected into the next
> external editor invocation).

> Currently it is necessary to do *something* with such chars when they
> are rendered into the TEXTAREA lines.  Leaving them as control chars,
> causes Bad Things to happen, when lines containing them later get
> submit'ted, etc.

> /kim



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