Re: UTF-8 support status.

[Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

 : > lynx does not compute line length correctly and higlights
 : > incorrect parts of text (acceptable for languages with little
 : 
 : actually, last fall I modified lynx to use ncursesw, and it appeasrs to
 : work reasonably well (does not compute lengths for combining characters,
 : which is not as bad as what you're describing).  Current version is 2.8.5dev.7

Having read this, I downloaded lynx sources and since I have 
UTF-8 enabled slang, I decided to give it a try and recompiled
lynx with slang support - and now lynx seems to work flawlessly
in UTF-8 mode (I did not verify the combining characters issue though)

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