lynx-dev Re: 8-bit characters in EDITTEXTAREA

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Wed, Feb 10, 1999, Ismael Cordeiro (address@hidden) said:
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| I couldn't find any previous report about this problem.
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| When using EDITTEXTAREA, 8-bit characters are "translated" to dots when I
| quit the editor. If I go back to the editor, the original 8-bit characters
| appear as dots.

It shouldn't be "8-bit chars" that get replaced with a ".", but only
"control chars" (ie, chars with numeric values below a SPACE, in either
ASCII or EBCDIC).

It is true that such chars have been replaced with .'s if you reedit
the TEXTAREA with the external editor, since the temp file cannot be
reused (you may well have made changes to the text within the TEXTAREA,
while still in lynx itself, which need to be reflected into the next
external editor invocation).

Currently it is necessary to do *something* with such chars when they
are rendered into the TEXTAREA lines.  Leaving them as control chars,
causes Bad Things to happen, when lines containing them later get
submit'ted, etc.

/kim