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Re: LYNX-DEV did something happen to <img alt="xxx"> ??

From: Klaus Weide
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV did something happen to <img alt="xxx"> ??
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 02:44:12 -0500 (CDT) 
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:

> Klaus, just did another test.  Japanese is doing one over on us royal!
> 
> If you use ISO-2022-JP encoding, ac-0.74 will handle the alt="" okay.
> I was testing with one of those "mulitbyte charsets that include 8-bit
> bytes" that Fote's always telling me I should learn about (but never
> will).
> 
> So, can you tell be how I should set lynx.cfg and .lynxrc to get the
> new Lynx to read the 8-bit charsets (SJIS or  EUC)?

I guess there is a bug, and no setting in lynx.cfg and .lynxrc will help.

> __Henry
> 
> results of test of:
>       <html><body>
>       <img align=left width="340" height="100" src="kinda.gif"
>        alt="[$B6a5&address@hidden(J]"><p>
>       <img align=left width="340" height="100" src="kinda.gif"
>        alt="[$B6a5&address@hidden(J]"><p>
>       </body></html>

This is a prime example why it is useless sending your examples
naively through mail.  Both alt strings, _as they arrived here_, have
exactly the same byte-by-byte content.

> 
> ************** lynx2.7.1ac-0.74: "-dump | most" (then cut-n-paste display)
> 
>    [1][$BB6C!B5B&(J~^B$BC'B3(address@hidden(J~^X~^I$BC4(J]
> 
>    [2][$B6a5&address@hidden(J]
> 
> ************** lynx2.7.1ac-0.74: "-dump >> thisfile"
> 
>    [1][$BB6C!B5B&CC'B3CCC   
>    [2][$B6a5&address@hidden(J]
> 
> 
> Link "[2]" is rendered correctly either way.  "[1]" is wrong either way.
> 
> ac-0.60 and 2-7-1+fmods render either 7-bit or 8-bit encodings correctly.

Give me a way to reproduce your input exactly, and I can try to trace it
down.

   Klaus

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