RE: [Lynx-dev] lynx 2.8.7dev5 and damaged characters

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Virden, Larry W. wrote:

> Okay then that's the problem. I appreciate your help.

It's a place to start.  I updated

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi

recently to try to clarify some of that.  You _may_ be running the
multibyte-aware nvi (ldd should show the dependency on the db library,
to see what version of db it's using).

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> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Virden, Larry W. wrote:
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> > Typically I use nvi as an editor . I have no idea how to tell whether
> > it is lynx, nvi, or xterm that is mishandling the characters.
>
> Typically nvi cannot handle UTF-8 (unless you're using a package with
> the multibyte additions - it's not part of any base system that I'm
> aware of).
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