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

[Virden, Larry W.]

srv29 $ ldd $(which nvi)
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440/lib/libc_psr.so.1 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:45 AM
To: Virden, Larry W.
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Subject: RE: [Lynx-dev] lynx 2.8.7dev5 and damaged characters

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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