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Re: [Lynx-dev] Change display of a unicode character
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Change display of a unicode character |
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Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:55:51 -0400 |
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:30:42PM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Is there a way to change the rendering of a unicode character
> in a non-unicode terminal?
> (E.g. hairsp = \u200a is dropped, but should better be rendered
> as a normal space, at least for some documents in the context of
> screen readers.)
>
> I am looking for a solution at lynx' invocation time or
> at lynx' build time.
Lynx does the latter: the ".tbl" files which are installed along with
it tell lynx how to handle various characters. Those are compiled
into lynx, and accessed in the options menu by selections in the
"Display Character Set". For instance, the 7-bit approximations is
a place to start:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/breakout/src/chrtrans/def7_uni.tbl
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