Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Chartrans suggestions

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Hynek Med wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
> > Well it's been a while since I have looked at it.
> > 
> > Lynx+chartrans can get its idea about a document's charset from
> >   - HTTP header
> >   - META tag
> >   - an A tag's CHARSET attribute
> >   - one of the new command line flags (-assume_charset etc.)
> >   - the display character set (when -raw)
> >   - something it remembers
> >   - iso-8859-1 default
... and I forgot about suffix rules.

> > and it doesn't always remember from where it got the idea.
> 
> Well, at least it has to remember what the charset is, so it's no problem
> to retreive this value and display it on the info page, or am I missing
> something? 

Fote has added info display for charset to his code.  But it displays
only charset info (hope I get this right) that is explicitly given
by HTTP headers, or a META tag, or implied by a suffix, and then only
when it is effectively used (which usually means that the selected
"Display Character Set" has to correspond to the given labelling.)

I think for my code it would be more useful to always show the "charset"
acually in effect, however it was derived.  But there should also an
indication whether it was just from a guess or from more authoritative
labelling.
  Klaus

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