Hi Victor,
This is a problem with encodings. Check if your terminal encoding
matches elinks configuration about encoding.
To change default enconding in Elinks configuration:
Menu "Setup" -> "Terminal options"
Set on/off "UTF-8 I/O".
Also, there might be a good idea to turn out frame handling, although it
should not be necessary.
For more advanced configuration, go at the "Options manager" (under the
"Setup" menu too) and tweek options under the "Terminal" subtree.
Good luck!
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:32:46PM +1000, Victor Hooi wrote:
> heya,
>
> I'm attempting to use Gmail via elinks, the console webbrowser. Apparently,
> this is one of the most feature-packed of the console browers =), so I was
> hoping for this to be a fairly good experience.
>
> Anyhow, for some reason, I've getting very random characters everywhere -
> e.g. â, ¤, Â - usually where say, the borders are meant to be, or in between
> words etc. Screenshot here (I've deleted bits and pieces of it for privacy).
>
> http://twitpic.com/1ym2vs/full
>
> I compare this to something like:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/reacuna/352340792/
>
> which looks good, without the random characters.
>
> I'm connecting through Putty, I've set elinks to "VT 100 frames" for frame
> handling, and it's on 256 colors.
>
> Are there any special settings I need to set, to make Gmail look better in
> Elinks? Or any tweaks I should use?
>
> Also, I should add that links2 (version 2.2) seems to display Gmail fine,
> without all the random garbage characters, not sure why. But I'd really like
> to get elinks working, of course, and it seems to have more active
> development, so it's weird it's broken like this on Ubuntu. Strange.
>
> Another thing - when I compose messages in Elinks/Links2, it seems to insert
> break characters at the end of each on-screen line.
>
> So my messages end
> up looking like this,
> being cut off every four
> lines.
>
> Is there any easy way to rectify that, with a console browser?
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
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