Re: lynx-dev major cjk charset problems

[Henry Nelson]

> running lynx in an UTF-8 term and display charset utf-8 I can see some=20
> big problems.
> 
> Try to visit:
> http://directory.google.com/Top/World/Chinese_Simplified/
> you the this warning and the site isn't displayed: "Alert!: gb2312"

Assuming that you have compiled all the chartrans stuff, then just
setting your display character set to Chinese from the option menu
should allow you to view that page.

> or visit this site:
> 
> lynx http://www.linux.or.jp

Below are the first few lines of "http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/.";  Display
character set was "Japanese (EUC-JP)", which matches my system environment.

> which is iso-2022-jp and which looks quite weird ... looks like=20
> translating from some cjk charsets to UTF-8 is a bit of a problem.

Lynx has it's own routines for handling CJK (predating _realistic_ UTF-8
support by 10 years or so).  Especially for J, the fine tuning in Lynx is
quite remarkable.  To take advantage of some CJK features, you may want to
compile Lynx with the configure option "--enable-cjk," but all that's needed
to view CJK is to set your display character set.  OTOH, simply using "Raw"
(toggle with '@') might work well with UTF-8.  I'd be interested in your
findings, so hope you'll report back.

__Henry

P.S. The first few lines of "http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/"; (Of course it
may still be gibberish depending on what your e-mail client does with it.
As I cut-n-paste here, it is legible.):
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   NetBSD$B$O(B[3]$B%U%j!<$G(B[4]$B0BA4!"$+$D9b$$0\?"@-$rHw$($?(B 
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