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Re: LYNX-DEV 2.8pre2 on Ultrix & charsets order


From: Hynek Med
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV 2.8pre2 on Ultrix & charsets order
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:40:40 +0100 (MET)

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > I have tried to test-build 2.8pre on Ultrix.. With Ultrix default curses
> > and native cc it compiled fine, but when displaying pages with characters
> > >128 these aren't shown but instead is shown their -128 value in reverse
> > colours. I guess -DLOCAL was the workaround for previous releases of
> > lynx.
> do you mean -DLOCALE?  (I don't remember a -DLOCAL).
> If it's -DLOCALE, that should be set by the configure script if it's
> applicable.

Yes, probably.. It isn't set in my case apparently though it's needed.

> > BTW, the character-set names in the menus are in very chaotic order. I'd
> > speak for some reorganization.. 
> I'd vote for alphabetic order, with the default pointing to the last
> selected value, but I'm a minority there.  (I think we've still got the
> order from 2.7.2).

Or something like

7bit approximations (BTW, US Ascii would be a good name for this charset)
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-2
..
cp000
cp001
other/weird charsets

Hynek

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