On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:05:18AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: lynx-cur
> Version: 2.8.7dev7-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Edit a mixed wide and narrow page like
> $ lynx 
> 'http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/index.php?title=User:Jidanni&action=edit&uselang=en'
> in xterm.
> 
> Note how the cursor position is miscalculated... Perhaps it is
> counting UTF-8 characters as three columns due to their being three
> bytes long here, instead of considering their correct display width
> here: two columns.
> 
> The effect is the cursor ends up waiting several characters beyond the
> end of each line.

yes, I'm aware of that - all of the input handling assumes single-byte
characters.  (juggling with other programs of course), it's what I'd
like to fix for 2.8.7...
 
> Perhaps w3m's approach is better: don't try and instead leave it to an
> external editor.

it's doable (see dialog, where I did), but rather complicated in lynx because
of all of the conflicting chunks of existing code I'd like to keep.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://invisible-island.net
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