On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 10:10:46AM -0600, rbell--- via Lynx-dev wrote: > > Quoth Mr Dickey: 'I don't see a literal ​ in lynx with > ISO-8859-1 or 7bit approximations. Your locale settings (and the > effective options) might be relevant.' > Thanks for that answer. I use ISO-8859-15 but the other 2 > make no difference. > > 'I see that "&#" is generated in SGML.c, but that would be > used in the source view, rather than the browsing view.' > I have my own test page of hundreds of metacharacters to see > what works. I mentioned that article because I found the coincidence > amusing: who uses zwsp other than in a language that doesn't put > spaces between words? It's a quirk. A commentator suggested that it > may be a watermark. I sometimes insert them to interfere with > searches: a search looks at the literal, not the displayed, content, > so bana​na isn't found by a search for banana. Ligatures also > thwart searches. > > '+ running lynx with locale C > '+ turning locale-based charset off > '+ setting document charset to UTF-8 > '+ setting display charset to ISO-8859-1' > > None of these made a difference, except that UTF-8 makes all > the metacharacters unreadable on my not-UTF system. I append > vt.default_utf8=0 to the kernel at boot. > 8204-8207 are undisplayed. I see where they're special-cased > in LYCharUtils.c, thought that must be the place, added 8203, to no
The comment says this: * This function used for translations HTML special fields inside tags * (ALT=, VALUE=, etc.) from charset `cs_from' to charset `cs_to'. * It also unescapes non-ASCII characters from URL (#fragments !) * if st_URL is active. Whether or not something is shown on the screen is a combination of the UCdomap stuff and the curses library. > avail. Changing: > > else if (ucs == 0xfeff || (ucs >= 0x200b && ucs <= 0x200f)) > to > else if (ucs == 0xfeff || (ucs > 0x200b && ucs <= 0x200f)) > > in UCdomap.c does, which seems odd: it makes 8203 no longer marked as > a zero-width character. ...and after that it looks in a table to see what it might be. Not having the patches you're using, I can only guess. > The problem happens with the package lynx 2.9.2 from lynx, so > it isn't one of my patches gone rogue. > > russell bell > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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