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

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> So the form's entry fields are in display charset.
> When submitting forms, lynx translate input fields back from display charset
> to the document charset (or assumed... if it was not set explicitely)
> so the remote server will not receive unexpected encodings.
> I am using lynx for search engins with cyrillic input text - it works OK.
> (According to HTML 4.0, there is a possibility to set submitting charset
> inside <form charset=...> syntax,

(YM <form accept-charset=...>)

> I hope lynx do this either,
> though I have not tested the details).

It's supposed to do it, I hope it still does.  I don't know of any
pages that use it, and I doubt that many other browsers deal with it,
so this was never tested much as far as I know.

   Klaus