On Fri, Mar 07, at 10:11 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
> > wget
> > ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/links-2.1pre33-utf8.diff.bz2
> > # <ESC> -> Setup -> Terminal Options and check the "UTF-8 I/O" box
> > # <ESC> -> Setup -> Character Set and choose KOI8-RU
> > # and while you have links running
> > g
> > www.in.gr
> > # <ESC> -> Setup -> Character Set and choose "ISO 8859-7"
> > ------>%----
> >
> > Also entering text in web forms seems to work with an exception
> > (I can't get an "μ", I take "υ" instead in VT mode).
>
> Bug in one of the programs called by the "console" bootscript, because the
> key
> doesn't produce the correct character even in bash command line.
>
> This seems to work for Russian, thanks for finding this patch! However,
>
> 1) We have to document what the user should set the "Character set" option
> to--probably it is a 8-bit character set that contains all characters that
> links
> is supposed to display.
>
> 2) This doesn't work for Chinese, because there is no such character set (but
> this is not a regression as compared to unpatched links).
>
> 3) Filling in the forms still doesn't work in framebuffer-based graphical
> mode.
I moved the (text) block in the cautions tag below the recommended patch
with a small addition (your recommendations), taking as prototype the
mc.xml page with a similar issue.
Please review.
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Index: basicnet/textweb/links.xml
===================================================================
--- basicnet/textweb/links.xml (revision 7211)
+++ basicnet/textweb/links.xml (working copy)
@@ -34,22 +34,6 @@
tables and frames, features background downloads, can display colors
and has many other features.</para>
- <caution>
- <para>In the text mode, <application>Links</application> cannot be
- configured to use UTF-8 encoding for the terminal output. This
- limitation renders <application>Links</application> useless as a
- text-based browser in UTF-8 locales. See general discussion of this
- type of issue in the <xref linkend="locale-not-valid-option"/> section
- on the <xref linkend="locale-issues"/> page.</para>
-
- <para>In the graphical mode,
- <application>Links</application> displays text correctly even in
- UTF-8 locales, if all characters exist in the built-in font used by
- <application>Links</application>. Form submission in UTF-8 locales
- is handled correctly when running in X11-based (but not
framebuffer-based)
- graphical mode.</para>
- </caution>
-
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
@@ -72,6 +56,36 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
+ <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Recommended patch: <ulink
+ url="&gentoo-ftp-repo;/links-&Links-version;-utf8.diff.bz2"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Do I Need the Patch and do I have to enable
+ graphics support?</bridgehead>
+
+ <para>In the text mode, <application>Links</application> cannot be
+ configured to use UTF-8 encoding for the terminal input/output. This
+ limitation renders <application>Links</application> useless as a
+ text-based browser in UTF-8 locales. See general discussion of this
+ type of issue in the <xref linkend="locale-not-valid-option"/> section
+ on the <xref linkend="locale-issues"/> page.
+ The patch fixes all these issues with an exception of Chinese locale,
+ where there isn't available a character set.
+ Note: You have to check the "UTF-8 I/O" box in "Terminal options" and
+ set the character set (probably a 8-bit) in the Setup menu.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>In graphical mode,
+ <application>Links</application> displays text correctly even in
+ UTF-8 locales, if all characters exist in the built-in font used by
+ <application>Links</application>. Form submission in UTF-8 locales
+ is handled correctly when running in X11-based (but not
framebuffer-based)
+ graphical mode.</para>
+
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Links Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
@@ -95,11 +109,19 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Links</title>
+
+ <para>If desired apply the patch:</para>
- <para>Install <application>Links</application> by running the following
+<screen><userinput>bzcat ../links-&Links-version;-utf8.diff.bz2 | patch -p1
&&
+cd intl &&
+./gen-intl && ./synclang &&
+cd ..
+</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Install <application>Links</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-graphics &&
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
@@ -115,7 +137,10 @@
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
-
+
+ <para><command>./gen-intl && ./synclang</command>: These commands
+ regenerate the languages table.</para>
+
<para><option>--enable-graphics</option>: This switch enables support
for graphics mode. You will either need to install the
<application>X</application> Window System or enable frame buffer support
in
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