Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx and character set

[Riku Virtanen]

Hi,

How to unset lynx?
The locale-option was on, and display character set was utf-8.
Still, alphabets are not working.

Riku

On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:03:50PM +0300, Riku Virtanen wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a Fedora 17 machine, Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 and default character
> > set of the machine is utf-8.
> >
> > Now, I am trying to configure the browser that it would show the
> > Scandinavian and German alphabets properly.
> > ä, ö and å are now totally wrongly viewed.
> >
> > I have tested practically all options for Display Character Set in
> > options menu, but the problem stays.
>
> well... using uxterm, and I did just this to view the unicode.html
> file from the sources:
>
>         a) unset LYNX_CFG (so that I would not be confused by my local settings)
>         b) run lynx...
>         c) in the options menu I set "Use locale-based character set" ON
>         d) set "Display character set" to "UNICODE (UTF-8)".
>
> The resulting display looks okay to me -
>
> This is with the Fedora18 package for 2.8.7rel.1 (I'm at the moment
> working on an rpm script for a different program).