Re: [Lynx-dev] bug report in Lynx

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Jurgen Gaeremyn wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA512
>
> On 28-02-11 01:14, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:19:18AM +0100, Jurgen Gaeremyn wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Using Ubuntu 10.10 64 bits, I recently installed lynx on my desktop for
> > > > text browsing. As this is a translated (Dutch) version, I bumped into an
> > > > awkward bug - don't know if it is already reported:
> > > >
> > > > Upon visiting a website, there's often a cookie request, which can then
> > > > be allowed... The description is:
> > > >
> > > > www.somewebsite.com koekje: =i Toestaan? J)a, N)ee, A)ltijd, V)-Nooit
> > > >
> > > > This suggests pressing the "J" button will trigger approval to allow the
> > > > cookie. Yet, it does not respond to this pressed key. Instead, one needs
> > > > to press "Y" (from Yes).
> > >
> > > It has been reported (see Debian #484250 for instance), but the last time
> > > I checked on it (a couple of years ago), it seemed that I had fixed it in
> > > upstream.
> > >
> > > However, I may have overlooked something, or else there may be a
> > > problem with
> > > the package.  I'll take a look to see.
> >
> > hmm - it works fine in Debian (both my build and the Debian packager).
> > Running "lynx -trace" shows just what is happening, by the way.
> >
> > Ubuntu offers the additional issue that "dpkg-reconfigure locales"
> > is lobotomized.
> >
> > Before I bypass that last issue - what locale are you using to access
> > the site?
>
> Thanks for looking into this!
> I'm pasting my locale info, and I also pasted the Lynx version info.
>
> Best regards,
> Jurgen.
>
> address@hidden:~$ locale
> LANG=nl_BE.utf8

Thanks - I thought it might not be de_DE.UTF-8 (which is what I tried),
but was unfamiliar with the possibilities.

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net