Re: status of CJK support patch

Subject: Re: status of CJK support patch
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 14:33:45 CDT

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On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:

> 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..
> > >
> >
> > 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.

The results are required to be identical. See the XML-Infoset at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset

So you should be all set. And it will probably work better in legacy
(like Netscape 2.0) browsers. :-)

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

Sounds great.
           
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