Re: LYNX-DEV Re: LYNX iso-8859-1 DGUX

[Jason Baker]

In a previous missive, Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Jason Baker wrote:
> 
> > In a previous missive, address@hidden wrote:
> > > 
> > >I compiled lynx2-6 on DGUX(R4.11MU02) and the special iso-8859-1
> > >characters are shown 'M-D' not 'D'.
> > >
> > >In the 'lynx -trace'-mode 'Ä' is converted to 'D'.
> 
> [The quoted lines above most likely don't show what was sent :)]
> 
> > I get this problem as well... terminal type is set to "xterm", but I
> > also get it on vt100 dialups.  I always just ignored it, figuring I
> > was the only one, or that was how Lynx decided to try to display that
> > sort of thing....
> 
> There is no code in Lynx, AFAIK, that would do that sort of replacement.
> Must be a "feature" of your curses or ncurses...
> 
> Lynx's -trace output doesn't go to the screen via curses functions, but
> directly via fprintf to stderr.  Therefore the curses functions have no
> chance to apply that "feature".

Whoops, missed that he was talking about -trace... I get it at all times.

> The slang output routines can do a similar, but different, replacement,
> but that would use '^' and '~' prefixes, not 'M-'.
> 
> Maybe you'll just have to apply the right stty command, like `stty 8bit'
> or whatever.  Your problems may also be realted to the fact that your
> mail arrived here labelled as "charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT"...

Yeah, my fault for double mousing his message to reply. :)  ELM got
a wee bit cranky.

I just doublechecked the stty settings, and there's no "8bit" for it,
but there is "pass8" aka "-istrip"... "-istrip" is set.  I'll play around
a bit with them, see how badly I can screw up my terminal. :)

>    Klaus

Jason

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