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Re: lynx-dev Query string handling bug vs bad html


From: Foteos Macrides
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Query string handling bug vs bad html
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:19:29 -0400

Foteos Macrides <address@hidden> wrote:
>Chris Gray <address@hidden> wrote:
>>Doug,
>>
>>Fote and Alan are right, and Lynx is right.  Just so you have it three
>>times. :)
>[...]

        Hmm.  Despite the "rightness" of the preceding theoretical
discussion about this matter, empirical testing reveals that v2.8
indeed has a serious bug in its handling of the "lg" character
reference.  It's defined in entities.h to the Unicode value 0x2276
but there is no translation entry for that value in the chartrans
tables, and instead of the standard error handling of using the raw
ampersand and "lg", v2.8 is substituting garbage characters which
vary as a function of which Display Character Set is selected.
(That's very "wrong". :)

                                Fote
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