Re: lynx-dev Line breaks and Double-byte Charsets

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Erik Peterson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    I write CGI programs involving Chinese.  I use lynx for some of
> these programs to download a Chinese web page in a nice format
> and dump it to a text file for further processing.  I call lynx like
> this:
> 
> lynx -assume_charset=gb2312 -dump some_url
> 
>    I've recently noticed that when lynx formats the text and
> insert line breaks, it will sometimes insert line breaks in the
> middle of a double-byte character.  This messes up the
> following text until the next ASCII range letter.
> 
>    I've tried this on both DOS and Unix and with the latest
> release version of lynx (2.8.2) and get the same results.

One thing to try, I don't know whether it makes a difference:

Go into interactive lynx, goto Options menu, set display character
set to the one corresponding to -assume_charset, save to disk.
Try the -dump invocation now.

Also try whether using -raw makes a difference.

   Klaus