Re: lynx-dev INSTALLATION file changes (was: Fix --disable-trace, #includes)

[dickey]

> In Lynx, I get a nice box, with the box/line-drawing characters, AFAIK. 
> When I try to cut-n-paste it, it looks like the following: 
>  
>    lqqqqqqqqqk 
>    x         x 
>    x         x 
>    x         x 
>    x         x 
>    mqqqqqqqqqj 
>  
> >   ìññññññññññë 
> >   ø          ø 
> >   ø          ø 
> >   ø          ø 
> >   ø          ø 
> >   íññññññññññê 
> >  
> > With Lynx compiled with Slang, I always get the box-drawing characters when 
> > I use the VT100 character sets and that ugly thing above when I use 
> > ISO8859-1. 

Yes - that's a limitation of xterm, and probably most similar programs (I
just added a related note about logging to my xterm faq earlier this week).
The cut/paste read directly from the screen image, which is already
translated into the characters that are _used_ to display the lines.

(I suppose the "fix" for that would be for JED to make a $LINELESSTERM
environment variable to define a class of crippled terminals by
subtracting the alternate character set from each terminal description,
along with an option on Lynx's option screen to do the same thing ;-)
  
> __Henry 


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