On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:42:57 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> On a terminal in ISO-8859-1 locales, lynx outputs a space before > >> the minus (U+2212) character. For instance "x−y" is displayed > >> as "x -y". Try lynx on the attached XHTML file... > > That's the way it is defined in > > src/chrtrans/def7_uni.tbl:1554:U+2212: - > > (a check of the history shows me it's been that definition at least ten > years ;-)
Ummmm, okay, I see. So this is an intended behavior. > > It seems a bug of lynx itself (not of a Debian package) so I > > forwarded the bug to the upstream. > > My impression is that it was chosen to be visually distinct from a plain > "-", but that it could be modified to make it less distinct... So the intention is to distinguish the minus sign from the hyphen, am I right? I'm afraid it is difficult to visually distinguish them on a text terminal. Thanks and regards, 2007-6-13(Wed) -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org> Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
