On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:57:41PM -0500, Mathias Gug wrote:
> Package: dictionaries-common
> Version: 1.4.0
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu lucid ubuntu-patch
>
>
>
> *** /tmp/tmpIuKu_L
> In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:
>
> * Makefile.in, debian/control: use w3m instead of elinks to build the
> documentation.
>
> We thought you might be interested in doing the same.
>
> We're trying to move elinks out of the main repository and use w3m as
> the default html text browser. Both version of the txt manual can be
> found at:
> *
> http://people.canonical.com/~mathiaz/dictionaries-common-policy/dsdt-policy.elinks.txt
> *
> http://people.canonical.com/~mathiaz/dictionaries-common-policy/dsdt-policy.w3m.txt
Thanks for sharing the info. I do not use w3m, so I am not aware of the
pros and cons of the different text mode www browsers. Any pointer to the
Ubuntu discussion about this? At a quick glance I see elinks maintained
(last release from 2009-08-22), but little activity in w3m.
Regarding the use of w3m, I created the txt file with both programs, and
differences did not look relevant, so I am not opposed to the change, just
would like to know more about the background.
One thing I had to change in my tests is explicitly adding '-O UTF-8' to the
w3m call. Otherwise rendering of 8bit chars is locale dependent and may be
incorrect for some locales including 'C' ('?' is rendered for 'C' locale).
And three of the people involved in the package have 8 bit chars in our
names.
w3m man page is ancient and does not mention -O, but w3m --help does.
Cheers,
--
Agustin
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