Re: w3m with UTF-8 support available

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx>]

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> The latest widely released version of w3m is 0.1.6. The second
> release of a comprehensive i18n patch is now available. This adds
> support for a wide range of document encodings, display character
> sets, and Unicode-based conversion between those. In particular,
> w3m-0.1.6-i18n-2 adds UTF-8 as display encoding.

I hope to look at the source myself, but can you tell us more about
UTF-8 as display encoding? How does it compare with Lynx?

Lynx tries to use UTF-8 despite a non-UTF-8-aware curses library. The
result is quite reasonable for a page that is mostly us-ascii, but not
really satisfactory for a page most in Russian, say.

To make Mutt work in UTF-8 I modified slang. The modifications are
supposed to implement a subset of the UNIX 98 curses specification,
i.e. those functions I needed for mutt. My slang modifications are
independent of mainstream slang development - I modified a rather old
version - but the patch might be useful for someone else, until the
mainstream slang does UTF-8. See www.rano.org/mutt.html

Edmund
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