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[Lynx-dev] wide-char support with different builds


From: Steve White
Subject: [Lynx-dev] wide-char support with different builds
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:10:51 +0100

Hi!

I have been very pleased to see lynx rendering Chinese, Hindi and Arabic
in a terminal for the past several years!  This, on the Linux Mint distro.

Unfortunately, in my relatively modern (Arch-based) Manjaro system, lynx
converts wide characters to ASCII gibberish.

I have ruled out the terminal application as the cause --- I logged in to
each system from the other, and the behavior depends only on which system 
lynx is running on.  On both systems, the environment LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

Find test pages here: https://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/language/

Either it has to do with some build options, or there is a bug in later
versions of lynx.  If it has to do with the build -- you might make clear
to the builder what steps to take to ensure correct behavior.

Linux Mint (latest release)
==========
(displays Chinese, Hindi, Arabic legibly)
Lynx Version 2.9.0dev.10 (11 Aug 2021)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.7.1, ncurses 6.3.20211021(wide)

Manjaro Linux (latest release)
=============
(makes ASCII gibberish)
Lynx Version 2.9.2 (31 May 2024)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 3.4.0, ncurses 6.5.20240427

By the way, the old w3m browser displays all these languages nicely on
both systems.  The elinks browser, too...
(but oddly, the browsers apparently choose different fonts, and some don't 
do well in monospace... weird.  I would think that was the terminal app's
job...)

Cheers!



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