Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem with selected link display in 2.8.6dev11/12 under OS X 10.4.1

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 address@hidden wrote:

> Ulike the previously reported message, dev12 did compile for me under
> OS X, but when I use lynx the selected link is offset by a few characters.

yes - I have seen this with some older versions of ncurses, and in a few 
special cases with current ncurses.

> For example, when I visit apple's page, one link line looks like:
>   JusJust one of Mac OS X Tiger's 200+ innovative new features that will
>   change the way you use your Mac. In stores now.
> with the link beginning on the second Jus. Somehow, the link is offset a
> character or 2 or 3 from where it started. No idea why this is happening
> since lynx works otherwise. I also recompiled dev11 under 10.4.1 and the
> same thing happens (it didn't under Panther), but a recompile of the last
> release (2.8.5rel.1) under 10.4.1 does not have the problem. Any ideas are
> very welcome.

The problem is that since 2.8.5, I've been rewriting the support for 
UTF-8 (there is not a one-one correspondence between string length and
column position).  That rewriting involves replacing some constants with 
calculations, for instance (and in replacing, I sometimes find errors, 
sometimes add errors of my own).

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