2.8.8pre.3 odd rendering of utf-8 characters

[John Drinkwater]

Hi,

Built lynx 2.8.8pre.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 with `configure --enable-widec` my
terminal defaults to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, lynx options are the same between
versions, but I’m seeing munged character output, compared to the system
default of 2.8.8dev.9

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Could I be building it incorrectly, or might this be a regression?

Thanks,

[Thomas Dickey]

Post by John Drinkwater
Hi,
Built lynx 2.8.8pre.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 with `configure --enable-widec` my
terminal defaults to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, lynx options are the same between
versions, but I’m seeing munged character output, compared to the system
default of 2.8.8dev.9

The --enable-widec option would work if the default curses library uses wide-characters.
It's more likely that
--with-screen=ncursesw
will do what you want.

Post by John Drinkwater
2.8.8dev.9
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2.8.8pre.3
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Could I be building it incorrectly, or might this be a regression?

"lynx -version" will tell what library you are using, e.g.,

Lynx Version 2.8.8pre.4 (11 Jan 2014)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 2.8.6, ncurses 5.7.20100313(wide)
Built on linux-gnu Jan 19 2014 09:51:49

Copyrights held by the Lynx Developers Group,
the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License (Version 2).
See http://lynx.isc.org/ and the online help for more information.

[John Drinkwater]

Post by Thomas Dickey

Post by John Drinkwater
Hi,
Built lynx 2.8.8pre.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 with `configure --enable-widec` my
terminal defaults to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, lynx options are the same between
versions, but I’m seeing munged character output, compared to the system
default of 2.8.8dev.9

The --enable-widec option would work if the default curses library uses wide-characters.
It's more likely that
--with-screen=ncursesw
will do what you want.

That makes sense, thanks. Reconfigure and making with that option made
it work as I expected. Turns out I was missing the -dev package for
libncursesw and configure didnt fail.

Post by Thomas Dickey

Post by John Drinkwater
Could I be building it incorrectly, or might this be a regression?

"lynx -version" will tell what library you are using, e.g.,