Re: [Lynx-dev] Unicode display problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 03:06:04PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> i've been testing how far i can use Unicode for Ancient Greek & Esperanto.
> one thing i've found is that -- following instructions --
> only some of the characters appear with Lynx.  my test file is attached.
> 
> on Gentoo Linux + Lynx 2.8.5dev16, i created a virtual terminal via

of course 2.8.5dev.16 is rather old (more than a year).  But the underlying
version of ncurses is more important.  If it's not the wide-character
configuration of ncurses, your results won't be as good.

>   LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -u8 -fn 
> "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1" &
> 
> this being the font which is known to work with Vim & OpenOffice.
> then i enter 'lynx testfile.html' & choose UTF8 under Options (Display),
> i can see the Esperanto letters  h^ j^ u^  & Greek  alpha - omikron ,
> but not Esp  c^ g^ s^  or Gk  pi - omega  (digamma is a problem everywhere).
> all of them are displayed correctly using Konqueror & Galeon.
> 
> further, in the test file obtained via Lynx help (Options menu),

(this comment isn't clear - are you talking about setting display character
set to something?)

> i can see only  00A9 03BB 042E 043B , but none of the others.

It seems to work for me.  I generally use the uxterm script (which has
the same general effect).  Fonts can be a problem.  Checking, I see
the characters using

*VT100*font5:   -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
*VT100*font6:   -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1

While the latter is more readable, I've found that it isn't as complete.
But for this example, either works (for me - using ncursesw).

Perhaps one of these:

        a) using slang or ncurses rather than ncursesw
        b) using an older version (?) of the fonts
        c) using an older version of ncursesw (5.4 is recommended - best
           results with the rollup patch from April).

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