Bug#428536: lynx-cur: on an ISO-8859-1 terminal, lynx outputs a space before the minus character

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: lynx-cur
Version: 2.8.7dev5-1
Severity: minor

On a terminal in ISO-8859-1 locales, lynx outputs a space before
the minus (U+2212) character. For instance "x−y" is displayed
as "x -y". Try lynx on the attached XHTML file...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lynx-cur depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.5-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgnutls13                   1.6.3-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libncursesw5                  5.6-3      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages lynx-cur recommends:
ii  mime-support                  3.39-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

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Title: Minus Test

This test is mainly for the lynx web browser.

In ISO-8859-1, lynx 2.8.7dev.5 outputs a space before the minus character: x−y.