LYNX-DEV Re: lynx-386 Raw 8-bit option not saved (fwd)

[Klaus Weide]

This message doesn't seem to have made it to lynx-dev, so I am resending.
Apologies if you get it twice.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:29:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Klaus Weide <address@hidden>
To: Eric Berenguier <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-386  Raw 8-bit option not saved

On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Eric Berenguier wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm using lynx-386, and it seems i can't save the value of "Raw 8-bit or
> CJK m(O)de" in option menu.
> More precisely, i want to display greek pages (ISO-8859-7 encoded) with
> ISO-8859-7 fonts (from isocp101 package).
> I don't use standard dos greek codepage because they are not supported by
> lynx.
> 
> My setup to do this is:
> display (C)haracter set   : ISO 8859-7 greek
> Raw 8-bit or CJK m(O)de   : ON
> 
> The problem is when i start lynx, raw 8bit option is always off, even
> if i had set it to on and saved it before.
> I've found no way to change this in lynx.cfg or lynx.rc file.

Yes, the "Raw" setting does not get saved with '>' from the Options
Screen.  (Another option that will not be saved is the User-Agent
string.)

Since development code 2.7.1ac-0.24, one can get a similar effect by
setting ASSUME_CHARSET in lynx.cfg - the "Raw" setting when lynx comes
up then depends on whether that agrees with the Display Character Set
or not.  So in your case, if you would set ASSUME_CHARSET:iso-8859-7,
"Raw" would be on by default when lynx starts.

However, you probably have an older version (It seems the last time
Wayne has compiled the code for DOS and made the binary available was
before 2.7.1ac-0.24).  If that is the case, then you cannot do it that
way; but you can still use -raw and/or -assume_charset=iso-8859-7
as command line flags.  If you always want to have "Raw" on when lynx
starts, you could just write a small batch file with the line
  lynx -raw %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
and call lynx this way.  Or maybe using
  lynx -assume_charset=iso-8859-7 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
works better with the version you have.

Note that if all the Greek pages you are viewing were properly
labelled, with "Content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-7" in HTTP
headers or in <META> tags, there wouldn't be a need for these flags,
or for changing "Raw" when you switch between reading (for example)
iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-7 pages.  


           Klaus

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