On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:29:09PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > 021126 Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > >> i am running Lynx 2-8-5dev.6 in a KDE Konsole window on Mandrake Linux 9.0rc1. > >> when i use (p)rint + Mutt to e-mail a news story to someone, > >> the command-lines for 'to', 'cc' & 'subject' do not redraw correctly > >> when i make a mistake & try to backspace: characters which sb deleted remain > >> & the only way out is to backspace to the beginning of the line > >> & re-enter the whole list of recipients or subject again. > >> this started when i had KDE start Lynx in Konsole automatically, > >> rather than manually entering 'lynx' at an empty Konsole prompt. > >> Lynx was compiled with Ncurses & is otherwise very stable; > >> there is also no problem using Mutt on its own. > > Perhaps konsole is running with a UTF-8 locale. In that situation, even > > if you're not using wide-characters, the character classifications aren't > > working as one would expect. > > ahah! the problem does involve the cursor jumping around as if with tabs > & after poking around (Konsole help & configure contain nothing) > i find under Mdk Control Centre -> System -> Menus -> Terminals -> Konsole > 'Extended Attributes/Values': "kde_opt \\nEncoding=UTF-8\\<other values>". > > should i simply delete "\\n...8" or replace "UTF-8" with something else? > i hesitate to cure 1 small problem by introducing many bigger ones ...
perhaps Encoding=ISO-8859-1, but I don't know. The environment variables for locale are more likely to be the immediate issue. What sort of characters are you editing? To make lynx work properly with a UTF-8 locale, I would assume it needs the ncursesw (wide-character) library from ncurses 5.3. (I'm going out of town for the holiday) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
