Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.6dev.6

[patakuti]

Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> I'm okay with the current feature set:
> 
>  - most japanese pages work in kterm (note that my lynx is
>    still English, and neither locale nor gettext/nls support
>    exists in the operating environment)
>  - some work if I set both lynx and kterm to display character
>    set Shift-JIS (lynx seems to not convert between them)

some work?  Do you mean some work and some doesn't work?
Please tell me in what case Lynx doesn't work with Shift_JIS setting.

>  - utf-8 pages don't work in kterm (no conversion)

Please try --enable-japanese-utf8 configure option which is introduced
from 2.8.6dev.4.

>  - utf-8 pages still look more than weird in uxterm
>    (screenshot on request)
> 
> What would be nice is if 2-4 could be fixed as well.
> As for the conversion: you're already converting well
> between ASCII approximations of chars (Ue -> Ue, € -> EUR
> and others), can't we do that with japanese stuff as
> well? The tables required should be to find in eg. iconv
> or the big unicode.txt file; the code 'seems' to be
> there (else I would see garbage when viewing the
> latin1/latin2 test pages in kterm).
> 
> bye,
> //mirabile
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