Re: lynx-dev strange interaction with gettext/anonymous/gz

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:

> Just hitting the `=' key to get the info page will lock up the
> keyboard except for ctrl codes when the environment variable is
> set to LANG=japanese AND the user is in a captive account.  The
> keyboard does not lock up if either the user is a regular shell-
> account user (even using ja) or the captive account has LANG set
> to english.  On Solaris2.6, with slang1.0.3.  Now testing dev.3.
> 
> Another problem that has come up is that some of the HTML is not
> being rendered.  Below is part of the info page as I see it.
> Japanese probably won't make it through the mail, but the problem
> is the visible " ".
> 
> ************from here
>    Lynx 2.8.2dev.3 (16 Nov 1998) ([1]development version) - [2]compile time
>                                     options
>                                        
> File that you are currently viewing
> 
>    Linkname: $B<+A3Bg9%$-9q:address@hidden;q8;8&5f<<$N%[!]%`%Z!]%8(J!
>    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;URL: http://163.51.110.11/
>    &nbsp;Charset: x-euc-jp
>    &nbsp;&nbsp;Server: NCSA/1.5.2
>    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:47:32 GMT
>    Owner(s): None
>    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;size: 17 lines
>    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mode: normal
>           
> ************snipped here

I just visited your machine and saw the same thing... (also the lockups).
Unfortunately I don't know anything about gettext.

But how about some traces?  Does the source for that page (under the same
conditions) look ok?  How about with -preparsed?

   Klaus