Re: [Lynx-dev] Change display of a unicode character

[Sven Hartrumpf]

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> schrieb am 2015-03-13 19:55:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:30:42PM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> Is there a way to change the rendering of a unicode character
>> in a non-unicode terminal?
>> (E.g. hairsp = \u200a is dropped, but should better be rendered
>> as a normal space, at least for some documents in the context of
>> screen readers.)
>> 
>> I am looking for a solution at lynx' invocation time or
>> at lynx' build time.
> 
> Lynx does the latter: the ".tbl" files which are installed along with
> it tell lynx how to handle various characters.  Those are compiled
> into lynx, and accessed in the options menu by selections in the
> "Display Character Set".  For instance, the 7-bit approximations is
> a place to start:
> 
> http://lynx.isc.org/current/breakout/src/chrtrans/def7_uni.tbl

Thanks for the explanation!

I just added U+200a to the line with the "spaces" comment,
recompiled, installed - and lynx now works as I need it.

Sven