Re: lynx-dev strange interaction with gettext/anonymous/gz

[dickey]

> 
> Compiled Lynx 2.8.2dev.2 on SunOS5.6 (Solaris 2.6)/slang1.0.3/gcc2.7.2.3. 
> Used the GNU libintl.a. 
>  
> So far Lynx seems to run fine in regular shell accounts with LANG set 
> at japanese.  However, in a captive account, if I hit return on a gzipped 
> file (extension .gz) Lynx freezes (=key input is not recognized other 
> than ^C).  When the anonymous account's LANG is set to english, the 
> problem does not occur, i.e., as with regular accounts, the file is 
> uncompressed and then displayed.  I have no way to test this on the 
> SunOS4.1.3 environment I've been accessing up to now wrt gettext. 
I guess I understand about half of this: the other parts missing are

        + is this 16-bit or 8-bit characters? 

        + what type of library (slang/ncurses/curses)

        + what type of terminal emulator

I assume it's locking up either because there's something like an XOFF
getting sent, or because the screen library is looking for the end of an
escape-sequence.  (Someone indicated that there's a bug in slang which
makes it not pay attention to timeouts in reading escape sequences).
  
> Can you take it from there, or do you need more info? 
>  
> __Henry 


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