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. > 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.
revisiting this: that's assuming that lynx uses ncurses/ncursesw. For _any_ other library configuration that I'm aware of, that's incorrect. That's not lynx's fault, but makes it awkward to change :-) > 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.) try to avoid misusing "modern" - it's not going to improve my attitude. > 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! > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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