Re: Does the Unix-based LYNX browser have issues diplaying UTF-16?

From: Thomas Dickey (dickey@herndon4.his.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 21:35:02 EDT

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    On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:53:59PM -0700, Tom Gewecke wrote:
    > >On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:34:36PM -0700, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:
    > >>
    > >> Does anyone on the Unicode list have an answer to this question?
    > >> Please make sure to copy edward.s.hudnall@alltel.com
    > >
    > >a sample page might help explain the issue
    >
    > This part of the lynx manual would seem to indicate that UTF-16 is not
    > supported (at least as of version 2.8.x)
    >
    > http://www.hippo.ru/%7Ehvv/lynxcfg.html#CHARACTER_SET

    lynx displays characters on the screen using curses (also slang actually, but
    its notion of locale is not as well developed). lynx knows about a variety of
    8-bit display character sets, and one special case for UTF-8. That case, if
    configured with a curses implementation that knows how to handle multi-byte
    characters, could in principle generate UTF-16. But that depends on the
    curses implementation itself. 

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