Hi,

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, le Mon 11 Dec 2006 23:16:40 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I would expect links to output braille patterns when browsing it, but it
> > doesn't recognize the BRF charset (though it is supported by my debian's
> > glibc's iconv) and links considers the text to be latin1, hence the
> > result is "A B C".
> 
> BRF charset support was added to iconv in Debian glibc 2.3.6-11
> on 2006-05-30.  So it's rather new.

Yes.

> > When links doesn't know a charset, it should ask iconv in case the latter
> > is able to convert into unicode, and then links could display it like any
> > unicode text.
> 
> I think an enhancement request about this should be added to
> bugzilla.elinks.cz.

Ah, the http://links.sourceforge.net/#dev page said to send it to the
Links mailing list.

> Are you
> requesting conversion of unknown charsets in HTTP documents via
> iconv (regardless of whether the charset is BRF)

That should be the simplest way.  Particular support of the BRF charset
shouldn't be needed.

I submitted the bug.

> Are the charset names of iconv generally consistent with MIME?

Yes, or at least iconv seems to always recognize MIME charsets.

Samuel
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