On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:50:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > > Then the status line at the bottom has (when it's a long start page) a > > > > translated version of "press space for next page" but displays some kind > > > > of rectangle instead of the letters "�" and "�". > > > > > > "some sort of rectangle" sounds like a font issue (the UTF-8 fonts are > > > missing a lot of glyphs, but if they're not installed, you'll see many > > > more missing characters). > > >... > > > > It doesn't seem to be a font issue because the same characters are > > displayed correctly when I look at German web pages. The solution is maybe > > to upgrade gettext in lynx so that it uses iconv? (unfortunately I don't > > have an autoconf version that works with lynx to test whether > > gettext-0.10.40 fixes this problem). > > at the moment I can't factor out the different things (gettext/iconv). > > The UTF-8 part is the most suspect, since lynx is producing that itself. If > autoconf is the only issue (and if the newer gettext is dependent on autoconf >...
Let me try to explain it: - The problem only seems to occur with the translated gettext messages. - The new gettext does character set conversion using iconv (3). - gettext doesn't need a more recent autoconf but I do only have unpatched autoconf-2.13 and autoconf-2.52 installed and none of them works with lynx... cu Adrian -- Get my GPG key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg --import Fingerprint: B29C E71E FE19 6755 5C8A 84D4 99FC EA98 4F12 B400 ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
