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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: [Lynx-dev] problem on an ISO-8859-1 terminal |
| Date: | Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:56:29 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:42:57 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Dickey wrote:On a terminal in ISO-8859-1 locales, lynx outputs a space before the minus (U+2212) character. For instance "x−y" is displayed as "x -y". Try lynx on the attached XHTML file...That's the way it is defined in src/chrtrans/def7_uni.tbl:1554:U+2212: - (a check of the history shows me it's been that definition at least ten years ;-)Ummmm, okay, I see. So this is an intended behavior.
right (it's too long ago for me to determine who made the change though)
It seems a bug of lynx itself (not of a Debian package) so I forwarded the bug to the upstream.My impression is that it was chosen to be visually distinct from a plain "-", but that it could be modified to make it less distinct...So the intention is to distinguish the minus sign from the hyphen, am I right? I'm afraid it is difficult to visually distinguish them on a text terminal.
yes (I agree with that). I'll add this (and a review of that file) to my to-do list.
-- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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