Hi! I am using an older version of lynx in xterm on Slackware64-15.0 and the umlauts are all displaying correctly for me in the articles on gopher://taz.de/1/
Lynx Version 2.9.0dev.10 (11 Aug 2021) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.1.1zb, ncurses 6.3.20211021(wide) Built on linux-gnu (Dec 3 2021 13:03:23). $ set | grep -e LANG= -e LC_CTYPE= -e TERM= LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 TERM=tmux-256color $ grep character_set= ~/.lynxrc character_set=UNICODE (UTF-8) $ grep -e ASSUME_CHARSET -e LOCALE_CHARSET ~/lynx.cfg #LOCALE_CHARSET:true ASSUME_CHARSET:UTF-8 What are the values on your system? Best regards, -Ben On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 08:27:37AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Hello! > > Lynx Version 2.9.2 (31 May 2024) > libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 3.4.0, ncurses 6.5.20240427(wide) > Built on linux-gnu (Aug 14 2024 19:16:02). > > lynx gopher://taz.de > open some articles and check for double spaces. > > I am running lynx on Slackware current to view some gopherholes. > I experience that sometimes German special characters (ä, ö, ß) are > displayed as white space - only sometimes. Normal ASCII characters are > also sometimes affected. > > This only happens on that system, Debian or Fedora are fine. > > I've checked the traffic and those characters are encoded the same all > time. > > > -- > Gruß > Marco > > Send unsolicited bulk mail to 1738393882mu...@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de >