Re: [Lynx-dev] HTML5 meta charset attribute (fwd)

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi,
did you find this post then?
You say thanks for getting the patches at the end?
Karen

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
To: KIHARA Hideto <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] HTML5 meta charset attribute

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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Thomas E. Dickey
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