Re: lynx-dev another largish patch

[Leonid Pauzner]

26-Oct-99 01:48 Klaus Weide wrote:
> ... is available temporarily at
>    <http://enteract.com/~kweide/lynx/>

> * Functions LYmbcsstrlen, LYno_attr_mbcs_case_strstr, and
>   LYno_attr_mbcs_strstr in LYStrings.c where unclear about the concept
>   of 'printable' or 'physical' used for some returned values in the CJK

There is a close long-standing problem with search in source "\" mode
when the word trancated with LY_SOFT_NEWLINE will not be found
while in "normal" mode it does. Seems LYStrings.c functions of that class
serve the behaviour.

>   case.  Callers expected number of display cells, implemented was number
>   of 'characters' counting full-width characters as 1 instead of 2.
>   Now these functions take an additional argument 'count_gcells' that
>   tells them how to count.
>   This removes some long-standing, somewhat obscure problems with search
>   target highlighting under CJK display character sets, as well as new
...

> * Reorganized LYOpenTempRewrite.  It should finally make sense for systems
>   without HAVE_TRUNCATE defined.

OK.