Re: lynx-dev Lynx character entity references fix

[Leonid Pauzner]

15-Mar-99 09:06 Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

>> > No. This is a bug in SGML.c: us-ascii document assumed as iso-8859-1 
>> > document
>> > so 8bit chars not filtered out but "translated from iso-8859-1" !
>>
>> > Try raw8bit.html under the test/ directory: set "assumed charset" to 
>> > us-ascii
>> > and "display charset" to something not latin1, say us-ascii,
>> > and try to switch "\" several times - no problem with HTPlain.c
>>
>> Writing from memory I was wrong: both text/html and text/plain
>> "translate" upper half us-ascii instead of filtering them out
>> (but 7F translated differently, restricted 128-lowest_eightbit characters
>> filtered out differently - try uncomment "do not print UHHH for now").

> Is there anything people should check or test?  If yes, with what code
> (dev.19, or dev.19 + your patches (which?), or wait for dev.20)?

This code never changed after 2.8.1 (at least) nor with my recent changes,
so try any dev.xx for manipulations described in the quoted message.

>    Klaus