Re: lynx-dev Re: [BUG] Editing in unicode

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:15:45AM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 09:13:39AM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > In utf-8 terminal, press /, then enter several 8-bit characters.  Now
> > press Left, then enter a.
> > 
> > One gets a corrupted display.
> 
> Is it possible to use Lynx with utf-8 displays *at all*?  I go to

viewing, not text-entry, should be workable.  It would be nice to make that
work, but my priority is on the html parsing bugs.  I started on one of those,
but my backup machine stopped working, my current priority is to get setup
with a new development machine.  My copy of OS/2 is on the backup machine,
but I use 2 machines for my day job - one thing at a time.

> google, customize it to use Russian; reload the search page to get the
> new display.
> 
> Now select any word in xterm, and try to paste it into the search
> field.  I get junk [empty squares].  [Something different (?!!!)
> happens if I try to paste a word shown by lynx in a different page: I
> get ######## instead of empty squares.]
> 
> Ilya
> 
> P.S.  Should tables work with utf-8 output?  I see that they do not
>       work well with my patches applied; but I suspect that they did
>       not work well before this too.

You're talking about column-alignment - that's likely not working.

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