On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 01:49:24PM +0100, Steve White wrote: > > I was curious enough to build it myself on the Manjaro system.
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/body.html#LOCALE_CHARSET > I now see what the problem is. I have a recommendation. > > The default configuration has > CHARACTER_SET:iso-8859-1 > simply changing the value in /etc/lynx.cfg to > CHARACTER_SET:utf-8 > resolves the issue. > > The thing is, in this day and age, the *right* encoding is UTF-8. the setting's been there more than 20 years (since January 2004). https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html#v2.8.5pre.3 > But the builder of distro software generally has little time to tweek each > package they build. The default configuraton should be UTF-8, if the > system can handle it (which all modern systems do.) packagers mostly set up their tweaks long ago. > It would be much better for your configuration to detect UTF-8 support > (however it needs to) and to set the CHARACTER_SET accordingly. > > Cheers! > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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