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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Henry Nelson wrote:

> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:17:02PM +0900, Atsuhito KOHDA wrote:
> > From: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: lynx-dev a problem of Japanese with 2.8.5pre.5 compiled 
> > withncursesw
> > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:27:18 +0900 (JST)
> >
> > > In deed, I have a patch (*) which makes Lynx be able to convert
> > > Japanese text encoded UTF-8 to EUC-JP and Shift_JIS.  But I'm not sure
> > > it's best solution of this problem, because it uses iconv and Lynx
> > > already seems to have translation tables except CJK and in some
>
> Tom, what's the status with Lynx and iconv?  I mean, is Lynx really using
> iconv, or is the configure script looking for libiconv in connection with
> gettext or in preparation for moving over to iconv?

It's looking for libiconv because that's used by gettext and/or
libncursesw.  But as noted, lynx does a lot of its own translation.

> > > On the other hand, Lynx doesn't have a translation table from Japanese
> > > part of UTF-8 to EUC-JP nor Shift_JIS also.  It's bad because we have
> > > to change screen setting (ex: from EUC-JP to UTF-8) to read Japanese
> > > pages encoded UTF-8, which is increasing in these days.
> >
> > Does the above sentence mean that with the patched lynx
> > we could see text of UTF-8 on a kterm (or similar terminal)?
>
> Also, what would it mean for terminal emulations like TeraTerm which don't
> do UTF-8?

I assume that means what it has before - you'd set your display character
set to correspond to what the terminal can do, and lynx would translate
as needed.


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