Re: lynx-dev [PATCH 2.8.3.dev6] patch that allows user to define what charsets will appear in "assumed doc chset" and "display chset" popups

[Vlad Harchev]

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Henry Nelson wrote:

> > +# It's possible to reduce the number of charset choices in the 'O'ptions 
> > menu
> > +# for "display charset" and "assumed document charset" fields via 
> 
> Of course it is already possible to do this very simply, and at the
> same time get the added benefit of reducing the binary size, by editing
> src/UCdomap.c (either by applying a patch or automatically with a script).

 I knew you'll say this.

 Removing the tables from lynx binary is also a good thing. But in multiuser
environments, such as university, a lot of language tables MUST be compiled
in lynx (since users are students from multiplie countries, otherwise each
user should have a personally compiled lynx). With the feature my patch added,
many charset tables can be compiled into lynx, but user can mask the ones
(s)he uses.

> A proposal, which included a patch for a configure option, was previously
> submitted.  I searched for it in the flora archives, but couldn't find
> it, nor a number of others in the same thread.  I have it in my archive,
> Mar 1999 (http://www.irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp/lynxdev/archives/9903.arc.bz2).
>       Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:38:37 -0500 (EST)
>       From: John Bley <address@hidden>
>       Subject: [PATCH][dev21] the binary size battle: disabling charsets
> 
> The idea may need more testing, but I've been doing it for quite some time
> now without any apparent problems.  (I use almost exclusively CJK, and I
> keep only iso01, utf8, def7.)

 I wonder why this patch wasn't integrated - probably it was incomplete patch.
Can you resubmit that patch to lynx-dev? 

> __Henry
> 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad