Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2.7.1: broken multilaguage bookmarks

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:38:21 -0500 (CDT), 
Klaus Weide   <address@hidden> wrote:

...
>All this doesn't solve the problem for people who want to add bookmark
>entries in different charsets (which presumably means, pressing 'a' while
>different "display character set" settings are in effect), or the general
>problem of mixing character encodings in files.  That basically is a HTML
>"limitation", since a HTML document can only have one document character
>set and a file can have only one character encoding.  There are various
>things that could be done, but I don't like any of them much:
>
    Could someone use the multi-bookmark feature, with each bookmark 
file starting from a different assumed charset?

>- We could invent some incompatible, nonstandard extension to label the
>  charset of a bookmark title (or generally, of anchor text) and use that
>  in bookmark files, something like
>   ...
>   <a href="..." text-charset=ISO-8859-2>Title With Latin-2 8-bit Chars</a>
>   <a href="..." text-charset=KOI8-R>Title With KOI8-R 8-bit Chars</a>
>   ...
>  and give up the idea that boomark files should be (basically) valid
>  HTML files that can be understood by any competent HTML tool.
>  (There is a CHARSET attribute in the i18n RFC and the HTML 4.0 draft,
>  but it means something else.)
>
    Having the bookmark file as valid HTML is a very useful feature.  
I feed lynx_bookmarks.html into Internet Explorer all the time; if you 
are curious how something will work in the other browser, you just 
bookmark it and go look.


-- Lloyd Rasmussen
Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the  Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress          202-707-0535
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