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Re: [Lynx-dev] wide-char support with different builds
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] wide-char support with different builds |
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:30:10 -0500 |
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 01:49:24PM +0100, Steve White wrote:
>
> I was curious enough to build it myself on the Manjaro system.
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/body.html#LOCALE_CHARSET
> I now see what the problem is. I have a recommendation.
>
> The default configuration has
> CHARACTER_SET:iso-8859-1
> simply changing the value in /etc/lynx.cfg to
> CHARACTER_SET:utf-8
> resolves the issue.
>
> The thing is, in this day and age, the *right* encoding is UTF-8.
the setting's been there more than 20 years (since January 2004).
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html#v2.8.5pre.3
> But the builder of distro software generally has little time to tweek each
> package they build. The default configuraton should be UTF-8, if the
> system can handle it (which all modern systems do.)
packagers mostly set up their tweaks long ago.
> It would be much better for your configuration to detect UTF-8 support
> (however it needs to) and to set the CHARACTER_SET accordingly.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
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