Re: lynx-dev 7 bit approximations for esperanto

[Leonid Pauzner]

19-May-99 14:57 Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hello,

> I often use lynx for viewing esperanto pages. It does this amazingly well. At
> least much better than any other browser I know (that means, better than
> netscape..).

> If I use a latin-1-terminal it even treats the accented letters of esperanto
> (which appear in latin 3), reasonably well, by a 7-bit approximation.

> But it could have been even better, because the 7-bit approximation is simply
> done by letting away the accent, which is for esperanto rather uncommon.

> For myself I made adaptions in def7_uni.tbl, which makes lynx behave
> perfectly, but only after recompilation.

> I figured that it would be a good change for the real `official' lynx, because
> recompilation isn't very user-friendly. What do I have to do to achieve
> this?
Send us a patch.

> thanks,

>   Michiel
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