Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem displaying gopherspace UTF-8 on ARM (Raspberry Pi)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:30:02AM -0500, Héctor A. Abreu wrote:
> I run raspi-config from the command line. The output for locale is as follows:
> 
> address@hidden:~ $ locale
> LANG=es_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=
> LC_CTYPE="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=

Thanks. Looks fine to on a first glance.

> The only strange thing I see is "LANGUAGE=" which contrast with my
> non-ARM Linux boxes (HP Laptop with Lubuntu, AMD with Debian Jessie
> LXDE), which show "LANGUAGE=es_US:es",

I must admit that I always forget what's the difference between $LANG
and $LANGUAGE. One is multivalue and one is with charset or so.

> but I don't know if it has anything to do with the problem because
> Lynx on Raspberry Pi displays gopher utf-8 correctly for http, but
> not for gopher.

That's indeed strange and sounds like an issue in Lynx.

> address@hidden:~ $ apt-cache show lynx-cur | less
> Package: lynx-cur
> Version: 2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1
> Architecture: armhf
> Maintainer: Atsuhito KOHDA <address@hidden>
> Installed-Size: 4615
> Depends: libbsd0 (>= 0.0), libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcrypt20
>  (>= 1.6.0), libgnutls-deb0-28 (>= 3.3.0), libidn11 (>= 1.13),
>  libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20070908), libtinfo5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3)
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I guess my bet will be to follow Thomas Dickey's recommendation on
> ncursesw.

Well, since lynx-cur on Raspbian also uses libncursesw at least that
part of compiling it locally shouldn't make a difference.

                Kind regards, Axel
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