Re: LYNX-DEV fotemods.zip update

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:

> 1997-06-29
> * Worked in KW's chartrans support, casting all of its code to the Lynx
>   Programming Style, adapting it for features not yet included in the
>   development code set, and adding a build procedure for VMS. With this
>   support, the display character set need not match the document's charset
>   when the latter is not iso-8859-1. See the README files in src/chrtrans
>   for more information. Three new configuration symbols (ASSUME_CHARSET,
>   ASSUME_LOCAL_CHARSET, and ASSUME_UNREC_CHARSET) and command line
>   switches (-assume_charset=MIMEname, -assume_local_charset=MIMEname, and
>   -assume_unrec_charset=MIMEname) are added.  See lynx.cfg for more
>   information about them. - FM

Here's how Lynx is displaying lynx2-7-1/test/iso8859-1.html with the new
mods:

Description                               Code           Entity name
===================================       ===========    =============
quotation mark                            "  -> ""    "   -> "
ampersand                                 &  -> &&    &    -> &
less-than sign                            &#60;  -> <<    &lt;     -> <
greater-than sign                         &#62;  -> >>    &gt;     -> >

Description                          Char Code           Entity name
===================================  ==== ===========    =============
non-breaking space                        &#160; ->      &nbsp;   ->
inverted exclamation mark            ¡    &#161; -> ¡¡    &iexcl;  -> ¡
cent sign                            ¢    &#162; -> ¢¢    &cent;   -> ¢
pound sign                           £    &#163; -> ££    &pound;  -> £
currency sign                        ¤    &#164; -> ¤¤    &curren; -> ¤
yen sign                             ¥    &#165; -> ¥¥    &yen;    -> ¥
broken vertical bar                  ¦    &#166; -> ¦¦    &brvbar; -> ¦
                                                         &brkbar; -> ¦
section sign                         §    &#167; -> §§    &sect;   -> §


And here's how it was displayed before:

Description                               Code           Entity name
===================================       ===========    =============
quotation mark                            &#34;  -> "    &quot;   -> "
ampersand                                 &#38;  -> &    &amp;    -> &
less-than sign                            &#60;  -> <    &lt;     -> <
greater-than sign                         &#62;  -> >    &gt;     -> >

Description                          Char Code           Entity name
===================================  ==== ===========    =============
non-breaking space                        &#160; ->      &nbsp;   ->
inverted exclamation mark            ¡    &#161; -> ¡    &iexcl;  -> ¡
cent sign                            ¢    &#162; -> ¢    &cent;   -> ¢
pound sign                           £    &#163; -> £    &pound;  -> £
currency sign                        ¤    &#164; -> ¤    &curren; -> ¤
yen sign                             ¥    &#165; -> ¥    &yen;    -> ¥
broken vertical bar                  ¦    &#166; -> ¦    &brvbar; -> ¦
                                                         &brkbar; -> ¦
section sign                         §    &#167; -> §    &sect;   -> §


Ismael

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