lynx-dev Re: Help on character sets (fwd)

[Philip Webb]

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From: "Leonid Pauzner" <address@hidden>
Date: Mon,  6 Jul 1998 01:44:22 +0400 (MSD)
Subject: Re: Help on character sets

> have another look: i hope it's accurate now.
>
> also, in the course of examining  lynx.cfg  & the Users' Guide,
> i have come across some problems with them:
> (1) there is no account in the Users' Guide of the Option `^a'
> -- Assume Charset if Unknown -- ; this is rather serious,
> since there are  2  switches which it could correspond to:
>  -assume_charset  &  -assume_unrec_charset ;

I remember, I ask Klaus the same,
he say "assume charset if unknown == assume_charset".

From the other side, the meaning of -assume_unrec_charset
is not clear enough for me: if it is not defined it happend to fall back
to current -assume_charset value which is a user-defined.

There was a discussion on ^A just after Klaus disappear:
people said this is a hack and should not be documented
(in fact, ^A works only in 'advanced' Lynx mode).

> (2) only  2  Options are mentioned in the long accounts in  lynx.cfg ,
> Preferred Document Charset & Assume Charset (ie  -assume_charset ),
> tho' in fact there are  4  Option settings affecting character sets.

Unfortunately, text in lynx.cfg badly written...

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