Re: lynx-dev tech. question: translating strings to different charsets

[Vlad Harchev]

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Henry Nelson wrote:

> >  I plan to implement the following confiruation setings and commandline
> [...]
> > HYHENATE:TRUE #or FALSE
> [...]
> >  HYPHENDIR:dirname
> [...]
> >  HYPHENDICT:tag:<FILESPEC>:CHSET
> [...]
> > HYPHENCTL:TAG:<LANGSPEC>:<URLSPEC>
> 
> Totally unacceptable.  We just finished (I thought) a tread on this very 
> topic.
> 
> To quote from <http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0699/msg00386.html>:
>  "PS: I agree that naming convention like HTMLSRC:<syntax item>:...
>    as Leonid suggests would be better, but I won't implement it since 2.8.2 
> was
>    released."

 Thanks for quoting. Seems that you collect or bookmark messages in
which I criticize myself in some way :)

 The HTMLSRC_* settings are very similar to each other in destiny - all they
specify how particular lexem will be rendered, so it could be reasonable to
group them in one. 
 The HY* settings  control different aspects (one defines directory, one
controlls boolen value, others provide means for pattern matching) - so it's
not reasonable to group them under one big setting (and I will need to write
code similar to LYreadCFG.c - ie binary search in the space of the allowed
sub-settings, etc).

> __Henry
> 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad