Re: [Lynx-dev] French accents

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Kristopher Kycia wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a pre-compiled version (2.8.7rel.1) of Lynx for MS Windows.  I am 
> not using any "terminal software" or the likes.  When I view a webpage 
> with accents, the accented characters display other ASCII characters 
> rather than the correct characters.

Mostly that's an issue with the library used for display.

That might be one of the ones that I compiled - there are three installers
here:

http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/lynx-setup.exe
http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/lynx-cs-setup.exe
http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/lynx-sl-setup.exe

The first two are built with PDCurses 3.4, and the last with Slang 2.1.4

A quick check on my machine (using the files in lynx's test-directory) 
shows that the last is displaying ISO-8859-1 more/less correctly, and that 
the PDCurses versions are using "other" characters such as the 
line-drawing codes.

> I have tried to change the markup (HTML) to use "é" and the 
> likes, this has ZERO effect.  Same characters appear as if I used the 
> accented characters in the first place (directly in the page).
>
> My Lynx Display Character Set is "Western (ISO-8859-1)" and the assumed 
> document character set is "iso-8859-1" with raw 8-bit "ON".
>
> The HTML webpage has at the very top:
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>
> Which is supposed to support French, Spanish and German.
>
> Can someone please tell what I need to do to get Lynx to properly 
> display my "accented" content?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Kristopher R. Kycia

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