Re: UTF-8 support status.

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:11:31PM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> 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)

I've read that slang-utf8 doesn't implement that.  (But since there's no
formal spec or compatibility requirements for any of that, perhaps someone will
implement it - with ncurses, I already have a long predefined to-do list ;-)

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