Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG

[Atsuhito Kohda]

From: Klaus Weide <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:42:54 -0500 (CDT)

> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> 
> > From: Henry Nelson <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG
> > Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:31:35 +0900 (JST)
> > 
> > > There is no need to touch userdefs.h at all just "for Japanese users."
> > 
> > Although you might ignore a very little effort to set up lynx.cfg 
> > or ~/.lynxrc but it is not true that there is no need to touch 
> > userdefs.h at all just "for Japanese users."
> 
> You have not sustantiated this claim so far.

Well, this "You" means "me"?  I think this is trivial but,
okay, I try to explain.

If lynx is compiled without modifying userdefs.h and a user
use this lynx without modifying lynx.cfg (and ~/.lynxrc)
then lynx can not display Japanese characters correctly.

Am I wrong or am I misunderstanding something?

> > > What about X?  Isn't it a matter of having the appropriate fonts
> > > available and not what $LANG is?
> > 
> > Well, is this right?  I think that $LANG should be set even if
> > the appropriate fonts are available.
>                            ^ un?
> 
> If $LANG indicates that a certain character set and encoding is understood
> and can be displayed by the display environment, while that is not
> actually the case, then the environment is obviously broken.

I wish to say that I believe some X applications do not display
Japanese character correctly unless $LANG is set, for example,
ja_JP.eucJP etc.

For example there is a document which says;

Some window manager can display Japanese at window title and
others cannot.  'asclassic', 'qvwm', 'icewm', 'blackbox', and so on 
can without any additional settings.  'wmaker' and so on can
with additional settings.  However, this version of language-env
does not set anything on window managers.

# Of course environmental variable 'LANG' has to be set properly
# for all window managers.  This is well managed by language-env and
# you don't need to think about it.

Regards,                        2000.5.25

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 Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <address@hidden>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.

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