On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:45:19AM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> Now Thomas says:
>
> some paths through the program will preserve the bytes you type in, some
> will check or otherwise process the data (and corrupt it).
> So it is not a problem of interaction with ncurses, as you insisted before?
He still insists:
The problem is that lynx reads characters from the keyboard one byte
at a time.
This is *not a problem*; read what I read again. Lynx has no problem
with utf-8 input on "lynx' prompt" line. Lynx has no problem with
storing the utf-8 input on "textareas" (i.e., even if the textarea
shows junk, it is fixed you leave the textarea, - and is even fixed
when you enter the textarea again).
> Moreover, I'm discussing *exactly the same* path through program: one
> opens a google search page, and xterm-pastes an entry into the field.
> If the entry was xterm-selected on "this" page, one gets one
> behaviour; it was selected on another one, one gets another.
OK, now I know more. While the selected area stays as it is, xterm
pastes fine. The moment the text area is overwritten, xterm pastes
####.
To see all what I say:
a) Download ilyaz.org/software/tmp/input_cyr.html.
b) xterm -u8 -fn '-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*'
c) lynx --display_charset=utf-8 input_cyr.html
(I assume that the lynx on path is the latest one). The cursor is in
the input field.
d) xterm-select "OK" (it is actually in cyrillic ;-).
e) xterm-paste it.
Buglet: lynx shows garbage.
f) press Tab (or Down).
Garbage is fixed!
g) press Up.
You are in the input field, and garbage is still fixed! [but position
is wrong]
h) Now xterm-paste again.
You get ## pasted instead of OK. [xterm bug?!]
i) press Tab and 'g'; you get into a prompted line; xterm-select OK and
xterm-paste again - you see that lynx has no problem with utf-8
input. [it is only the textarea branch which is slightly confused]
Hope this helps,
Ilya
P.S. I raised the question why "prompt textarea" and "HTML textareas"
are processed by different code a couple of years ago already. Now it
is a ripe time to merge the code.
P.P.S. Using ilyaz.org/software/tmp/input_cyr.html directly does not
work; META HTTP-EQUIV is not processed. Is it the intended behaviour?
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