Re: Converting Unicode characters to ASCII: Control Pictures block
Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
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----- Original Message ----- | From: "Tim Chase" <[email protected]> | To: "lynx-dev" <[email protected]> | Cc: "Thorsten Glaser" <[email protected]> | Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2022 3:55:52 PM | Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Converting Unicode characters to ASCII: Control Pictures block | On 2022-12-25 13:57, Thorsten Glaser wrote: |> Tim Chase dixit: |>> but it looks like it causes weird behaviors. |> |> Huh? Works well for me. It just outputs the character, which |> is a printable character. Are you sure you have your terminal |> and lynx in UTF-8 mode both? | | My locale is pretty boring: | | $ locale | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_ALL= | | and as shown in the attached screenshot, using printf to write that | [esc] character to the screen displays fine (it displays as expected). | However, when I view it in lynx, it shows nothing (as captured in | the second screenshot) | | If I force the display charset using | | lynx --display_charset=utf-8 delme.html | | it does render the character as you describe. So I think you've | tracked where the breakdown is happening. Is there some environment | variable I've missed to inform lynx that this particular terminal | is UTF8 aware? What does lynx use to determine terminal utf8'ness | if it's not explicitly specified on with --display_charset? https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/body.html#LOCALE_CHARSET -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net