[Mailman-Developers] 8-bit input in administrator menu

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:53:06 -0500 (EST)


>>>>> "BN" == Balazs Nagy <julian7@kva.hu> writes:

    BN> I did a little digging about entering text with accents.  It's
    BN> a bit curious that one can type accents in textarea but to
    BN> textbox cannot.  In the latter case you can see an escaped
    BN> print of your input.

    BN> In the end I came to htmlformat.py's InputObj.  At this point
    BN> I have a humble question: who put `-s around value?  After a
    BN> s/`value`/value/ in line #368, almost everything works fine,
    BN> because this brings up a problem about quoting. Of course, the
    BN> patch is here.

Near as I can tell, that's the way the code has been since its initial
version.  I've installed this change.

Thanks,
-Barry