Re: [Lynx-dev] HTML5 meta charset attribute

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, KIHARA Hideto wrote:

> Please support meta charset attribute of HTML5.
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/semantics.html#the-meta-element
>
> Because lynx does not recognize charset attribute on the meta element,
> following site which contains <meta charset="UTF-8"> is not shown correctly.
>  http://vim-jp.org
> ("Charset: euc-jp" in information page shown by '=' key.
> "Display character set" option is "Japanese (EUC-JP)").
>
> Screen captures:
>  Lynx 2.8.8dev.9:
>    http://www1.interq.or.jp/~deton/lynx/meta-charset-NG.png
>  Lynx 2.8.8dev.9 with patch:
>    http://www1.interq.or.jp/~deton/lynx/meta-charset-OK.png
>
> Lynx.trace log:
> SGML: Unknown attribute charset for tag META
> SGML: Attribute value UTF-8 ***ignored
> SGML: Start <META>
> LYHandleMETA: HTTP-EQUIV="(null)" NAME="(null)" CONTENT="(null)"
>
> Here is a patch to support meta charset attribute of HTML5.

thanks ;-)

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