Re: Zero-width space

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Aug 2024 12:37:12 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 08:39:04AM -0600, rbell--- via Lynx-dev wrote:
> 	lynx displays &#8203; verbatim for me, which is the point of
> my message.
> 	I edit lynx to make lynx undisplay it.  I first tried adding
> it to the treatment of other undisplaying characters in LYCharUtils.c,
> which didn't work, had to change UCdomap.c to make lynx undisplay it.
> 
> 	I apologize for my invalid example.  I don't run UTF,
> translate UTF docs.  I've done it for so long I forgot, thought the
> &#8203; in that 'The New Yorker' article was native.

I don't see a literal &#8203; in lynx with ISO-8859-1 or 7bit approximations.
Your locale settings (and the effective options) might be relevant.

I see that "&#" is generated in SGML.c, but that would be used in the
source view, rather than the browsing view.  Checking that, with

	+ running lynx with locale C
	+ turning locale-based charset off
	+ setting document charset to UTF-8
	+ setting display charset to ISO-8859-1

and looking at the source view, I see a few numeric entities, but no 8203.
For example, 8209:

+condenast.com\u002Fuser-agreement\u002F\"\u003EUser Agreement\u003C\u002Fa\u00▒
+3E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.condenast.com\u002Fprivacy-policy\u▒
+002F#privacypolicy\"\u003EPrivacy Policy\u003C\u002Fa\u003E\u003C\u002Fp\u003E▒
+","singleDangerousDek":"If, alternatively, you would like to adjust your&nbsp;▒
+e&#8209;mail&nbsp;preferences, please \u003Ca href=\"\u002Faccount\u002Fsign-i▒
+n\"\u003Esign in\u003C\u002Fa\u003E."},"useManageForSubscribe":true},"newslett▒
+erList":[{"category":"The New Yorker Newsletter","frequencyBadge":"Daily","ind

(the \u's look odd, but appear to be in the original file)

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