[Lynx-dev] UTF-8 editing in 2.8.7dev.8

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi people,

the new version indeed has m̲u̲c̲h̲ better editing capabilities for UTF-8,
with regards to cursor positioning and backspace handling. The exception
is CJK characters (double-wide, e.g. 何), which make the cursor mis-
position, again. Still, it's worth the upgrade!

Tom, you should really look at some non-English webpages using Lynx to
test all this, for example form fields are now like this:

   [23]« [24][(2)__2. Tag 2: Fahrrad fahren will gelernt sein_]
                                                                [25]»
when using only ASCII characters, but
   [23]« [24][(7)__7. Special: Filchs Kämmerchen______________
                                                                [25]»
when having non-ASCII unicode characters inside.



My options screen still looks like this:

  General Preferences
  User mode                        : [5][(3)__Advanced____]
  Editor                           : 
[6]jupp_____________________________________________________________________
_
  Type of Search                   : [7][(1)__Case insensitive]

... so nothing has changed here, links-and-form-fields-are-numbered still
leads to mis-displaying things.

Disabling it doesn't help here:

   « [7. Special: Filchs Kämmerchen______________
                                                   »

Hm. It doesn't help the options screen either:

  General Preferences
  User mode                        : [Advanced____]
  Editor                           : 
jupp________________________________________________________________________
_
  Type of Search                   : [Case insensitive]


This is MirBSD #10-RELEASE, ncursesw 5.5.

bye,
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