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Re: LYNX-DEV Is lynx good with international characters?


From: Al Gilman
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Is lynx good with international characters?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:52:23 -0400 (EDT)

  From: Dan Soleil Pollock <address@hidden>
  Subject: LYNX-DEV Is lynx good with international characters?

  At http://www.interpage.ca there are 3 accented characters in french,
  2 of them do not work because they are closed in within a word but the
  3rd (actually second) one works as it has spaces on either side.  I
  have tested it and if I put a semi-colon at the end of the code, it
  works but with NS and IE, it works fine as it is.
  
Lynx works fine with international characters that are
represented in the way that the international agreements for
these things say they should be.  Get your HTML mail writers to
follow the standards.

   I will be using lynx to automatically convert html email to text in a
  french environment but I can see that I will run into problems often as
  accents appear often.

That is your choice.  There are other programs that are intended
to be file viewers.  Lynx is primarily intended for interactive
use, to browse webs of information.
  
   Can someone suggest something?  I am using win32 and have no win32
  compiler so my hands are tied.

You can get Perl.  You can adapt one of the existing HTML-fixer-upper
scripts to put the closing semicolon on what you guess to be special
characters (an run this prefilter on the sloppy HTML before textifying
it with Lynx).

--
Al Gilman


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