Re: lynx-dev very long ; can we not overwrite or change ";" to "(" ?</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=lynx-dev@sig.net&q=from:%22Thomas+Dickey%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Thomas Dickey</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=lynx-dev@sig.net&q=date:20020821" rel="nofollow">Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:26:11 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:49:23PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote: > It really bugs me that I have to advertise "Microsoft Internet Explorer" > in the title bar to everyone who accesses my pages with MSIE. The only > work around I know of is to make a very long <title> to push the M$ > insert off the screen. When you access a document with such a long > <title> in Lynx, the left parenthesis around the page indicator is over- > written with a ";", i.e., you get "；p1 of 2)" rather than "(p1 of 2)." > > I looked around in lynx.po for a possible way to personalize my Lynx to > not do this, but I couldn't find anything off hand. Is that ";" hard- > coded somewhere (and if so where)? > > If other people are interested in a "fix," I can think of at least two > ways to go. I like 1. better since it seems a little more universal. > 1.) change the code so that a character is not overwritten with ";" but > rather prefix the character inserted by Lynx on the right with "; ". > The right side of Lynx's title bar would look like: "; (pN of N)". > 2.) simply replace ";" with "("; and get "(pN of N)". But of course > there might be situations where you don't want "(".</pre><pre> Reading the code (src/GridText.c, display_title()), I only see it doing a truncation of the title string based on its length. If your title contains non-ASCII text, it may therefore split one of the multibyte characters. I don't see an explicit ';', so it's possible that is just trash from an incomplete character. -- Thomas E. 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