Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bookmark display problems

[Jacob Poon]

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> >      * From: Jacob Poon <address@hidden>
> >      * Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:09:07 -0400
> >      * Reply-To: address@hidden
> >      * Sender: address@hidden
> >      _________________________________________________________________
> 
> > BTW, just out of curiosity, what does character number 129 in ISO Latin 1
> > character set looks like?
> 
> There is no valid letters in 128-159 range for ISO LATIN 1 (2,3,4...)
> it is so called C1 control area, this may be a cursor moving codes in xterm
> for example.
> If you look the bookmark from different terminals with different display
> charsets you will look all chars correctly.
> Unfortunately, if you add new links to bookmark from different terminals,
> 8bit chars will be saved properly from one terminal only,
> if matching assume_local_charset or META inside bookmarks.

Speaking of which, when Lynx saves bookmark, shouldn't Lynx lookup the
code page translation table and the DCS first, then convert letters with
unusual codes into corresponding amp codes (if available), before actually
saving it into the bookmark?

Also, does HTML 4.0 support multiple document encoding within a single
HTML document?  For example:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

[ISO-Latin 1 texts]
......

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=big-5">

[Big-5 Chinese texts]
......

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=euc-jp">

[EUC-Japanese texts]
......

Will a HTML 4 compilant browser shows first group of texts in ISO-8859-1
font, 2nd group of texts in BIG-5 font, and last group of texts in
EUC-Japanese font, if all necessary fonts are installed and automatic font
switching is available?