Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: lynx-dev a problem of Japanese with 2.8.5pre.5 compiled withncursesw

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

> From: address@hidden
> Subject: [Lynx-dev] Re: lynx-dev a problem of Japanese with 2.8.5pre.5 
> compiled withncursesw
> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 22:38:34 +0900 (JST)
>
> > > I tested the above patch with my Debian GNU/Linux system
> > > but I couldn't see any improvement ;-)
> >
> > Please try again using libiconv instead of glibc's iconv.
>
> Yes, it worked incredibly fine with libiconv instead of
> glibc's iconv.
>
> The patched lynx (2.8.6dev.3) displays correctly pages
> of normal Japanese encodings (EUC-JP etc.) and also
> pages of UTF-8 continuously (that is, without changing
> any settings) on kterm.
>
> Only one (but critical) problem is that installing libiconv
> in a system with glibc (like Linux) might be very hard and
> dangerous.

only when the install overwrites existing files.

> Isn't there any chance of a patch which could work with glibc's
> iconv?

Other than setting $LIBS, what is involved in doing this?

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