Re: [Lynx-dev] Slackware lynx gopher umlauts sometimes now shown

[Ben Collver]

Hi!

I am using an older version of lynx in xterm on Slackware64-15.0 and
the umlauts are all displaying correctly for me in the articles on
gopher://taz.de/1/

Lynx Version 2.9.0dev.10 (11 Aug 2021)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.1.1zb, ncurses 6.3.20211021(wide)
Built on linux-gnu (Dec  3 2021 13:03:23).

$ set | grep -e LANG= -e LC_CTYPE= -e TERM=
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
TERM=tmux-256color

$ grep character_set= ~/.lynxrc
character_set=UNICODE (UTF-8)

$ grep -e ASSUME_CHARSET -e LOCALE_CHARSET ~/lynx.cfg
#LOCALE_CHARSET:true
ASSUME_CHARSET:UTF-8

What are the values on your system?

Best regards,
-Ben

On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 08:27:37AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Lynx Version 2.9.2 (31 May 2024)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 3.4.0, ncurses 6.5.20240427(wide)
> Built on linux-gnu (Aug 14 2024 19:16:02).
> 
> lynx gopher://taz.de
> open some articles and check for double spaces.
> 
> I am running lynx on Slackware current to view some gopherholes.
> I experience that sometimes German special characters (ä, ö, ß) are
> displayed as white space - only sometimes. Normal ASCII characters are
> also sometimes affected.
> 
> This only happens on that system, Debian or Fedora are fine.
> 
> I've checked the traffic and those characters are encoded the same all
> time.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gruß
> Marco
> 
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