On 2005-07-13 Frederic Briere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: lynx
> Version: 2.8.5-2
> Severity: normal

> When doing a file upload, lynx pastes the filename as-is, even if it
> includes non-ASCII characters.  However, RFC 1521 states that "in no
> event are headers (either message headers or body-part headers) allowed
> to contain anything other than ASCII characters."

> RFC 1867 says that the filename "might be approximated or encoded using
> the method of RFC 1522".  It doesn't mandate any particular encoding,
> though, so that makes it rather useless.

> FWIW, all the other browsers out there (IE, Mozilla, Opera) don't bother
> at all, and merely encode the filename the same way as the other fields.
> ("Standards?  We don't need no stinkin' standards!")
[...]

This is supposed to be fixed in newer versions, especially the one
currently available in sid (2.8.7dev9-1.2).
cu andreas



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