Re: status of CJK support patch


Subject: Re: status of CJK support patch
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 13:02:05 CDT


On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, sam th wrote:

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> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
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> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
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> > > I #if 0'd it out. Meta is not a well formed tag. Maybe try to do something
> > > like this:
> > > <meta foo="" />
> > >
> > > You can't really cleanly do a work-around in the importer, since the tag
> > > wouldn't be well formed and the XML parser will barf. You'll end up with
> > > "Foo is a bogus document"
> >
> > OK, I will try to do as you suggested.
> > Also I will research whether there are any other ways to specify charset of
> > the document..
> >
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> Actually, if you look at the code, it already supports the />
> construct. See patch 1.27 to that file, by me. So removing the ifdef's
> should be all you need to do. If not, you can leave it alone and I'll fix
> it on sunday.

 I sticked to using "</meta>" instead of "<meta foo='' />" - since that's more
valid html. Are there any drawbacks of using "</meta>"? I tested resultant
html with lynx and netscape and it worked fine.

  Right now I'm finished all writing, and am testing importers and exporters.

 Best regards,
  -Vlad



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