Re: wide-char support with different builds

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:30:10 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 01:49:24PM +0100, Steve White wrote:
> 
> I was curious enough to build it myself on the Manjaro system.

https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/body.html#LOCALE_CHARSET

> I now see what the problem is.  I have a recommendation.
> 
> The default configuration has
> 	CHARACTER_SET:iso-8859-1
> simply changing the value in /etc/lynx.cfg to
> 	CHARACTER_SET:utf-8
> resolves the issue.
> 
> The thing is, in this day and age, the *right* encoding is UTF-8.

the setting's been there more than 20 years (since January 2004).

https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html#v2.8.5pre.3

> But the builder of distro software generally has little time to tweek each
> package they build.  The default configuraton should be UTF-8, if the
> system can handle it (which all modern systems do.)

packagers mostly set up their tweaks long ago.
 
> It would be much better for your configuration to detect UTF-8 support
> (however it needs to) and to set the CHARACTER_SET accordingly.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net

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