Re: [Lynx-dev] Display Unicode text in lynx run in a Putty window

[Yong Huang]

Thanks Tom. Lynx version is
Lynx Version 2.8.8rel.2 (09 Mar 2014)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1g, ncurses 5.9.20110404
Built on netbsd Jun 28 2014 17:07:45

I can get the Chinese text in GB2312 encoding to work (e.g. the homepage of cnd.org). But I really want to get Unicode to work. It seems more and more non-European web pages use Unicode instead of language-specific encoding these days.

(Does this list oppose top-posting? If so, I'll do it the right way next time.)

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From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
To: Yong Huang <address@hidden>
Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Display Unicode text in lynx run in a Putty window

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:09:07PM -0700, Yong Huang wrote:

> I use Putty (a telnet or ssh program) to connect to a UNIX box and run lynx (Version 2.8.8rel.2 (09 Mar 2014)). On a page with Unicode text, such as the
> language names under the "Languages" heading of
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29
>
> how
> do I configure lynx to display the text correctly?  For example, the first
> Arabic and the last Chinese language names are not shown correctly.  I set
> lynx option "Display character set" to "UNICODE (UTF-8)", "Assumed
> document character set" to "utf-8", and saved the setting. I also tried
> various fonts inside Putty and Translation to either UTF-8 or "Use font
> encoding". None worked. Thanks for help.

What does "lynx -version" show?

(offhand, I recall only looking at PuTTY with Lucida Console, which has some CJK coverage,
but not "good" - all of the good-coverage Microsoft fonts are part of Office).

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