Re: [Lynx-dev] Change display of a unicode character

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 04:15:45PM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> schrieb am 2015-03-13 19:55:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:30:42PM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
> >> Hi all.
> >> 
> >> Is there a way to change the rendering of a unicode character
> >> in a non-unicode terminal?
> >> (E.g. hairsp = \u200a is dropped, but should better be rendered
> >> as a normal space, at least for some documents in the context of
> >> screen readers.)
> >> 
> >> I am looking for a solution at lynx' invocation time or
> >> at lynx' build time.
> > 
> > Lynx does the latter: the ".tbl" files which are installed along with
> > it tell lynx how to handle various characters.  Those are compiled
> > into lynx, and accessed in the options menu by selections in the
> > "Display Character Set".  For instance, the 7-bit approximations is
> > a place to start:
> > 
> > http://lynx.isc.org/current/breakout/src/chrtrans/def7_uni.tbl
> 
> Thanks for the explanation!
> 
> I just added U+200a to the line with the "spaces" comment,
> recompiled, installed - and lynx now works as I need it.

sounds good (thanks for the feedback)

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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