Re: [Lynx-dev] rendering — (0x97)

[David Woolley]

On 28/06/2020 18:40, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > but in the meantime, the html5 crowd declared that iso-8859-1 is
> > identical to cp1252
>
> WHAT‽

WHATWG!

Looking at the network traffic, on Firefox, I can see why they wouldn't 
like a non-WHATWG compliant browser.  The page even seems to report back 
frequently as to whether you still have it open!  It loads large number 
of resources which are not there for your benefit.  You are completely 
breaking the real purpose of the page by trying to access just the 
editorial.

Firefox is reporting the & as &, even in the source as recovered 
from the developer tools, so I'm not certain what is going over the 
wire, but if they are sending — over the wire, rather than the a 
byte containing the value 151, the contents encoding wouldn't matter, as 
entities are interpreted in Unicode, unless WHATWG have also dictated 
that control characters be overlaid with CP 1252 characters in WHATWG 
"Unicode".

The fact that Debian Firefox doesn't play ball on this makes me think 
they either haven't done that, or only did it very recently.