On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 07:42:57PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Atsuhito Kohda 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: -
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:47:08AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-06-14 11:19:00 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Now, in my case, I recall that I had "x−y", and lynx displayed > "x -y" instead of "x-y". As "x -y" is asymmetric, it may be quite > confusing. Instead of the difference x minus y, one can understand it > as x followed by the opposite of y. Anyway, if there is an ambiguity > with the hyphen, the author can write "x − y". That's > not the goal of lynx to try to eliminate the ambiguities. On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:39:53AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:33:38PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > Hi Vincent, > > > > I didn't say the current behavior of lynx was correct, okay? > > > > It looked to me that you doubted that the current behavior > > was intended so I only tried to explain why someone (it seemed no > > one knew who he/she was) could think intentionaly to add a space > > to a hyphen to express a minus sign (though it was only my guess). > > yes, we can only guess. As far as I know, there is no rcs/cvs/etc history > for Lynx before early 1997 (and the change was made before then). I think most people posting on this thread would favor removal of the space before "-" for U+2212 in src/chrtrans/def7_uni.tbl. May I make a motion for its removal; get a quick vote; and then get it removed if that's what people want? TIA __Henry _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
