Re: [Lynx-dev] non-ascii characters in URLs

[Keith Bowes]

Je 2012-Jan-02 je 20:01, Klaus-Peter Wegge skribis:
> Dear Lynx Team,
> 
> URLs with non-ascii characers are getting more popular in Europe.
> For example: http://www.hörkomm.de (German site).
> 
> lynx releases (2.8.6 and 2.8.7) cannot deal with such URLs on my suse or
> debian mashines, while various grafic browsers and even LINKS on the
> same systems can handel such URLs. More precisely:
> lynx cannot connect the remote host for this URLs.

I don't know what the other people are doing wrong.  That URL works for
me in Firefox.  It only works in Lynx when I get the ASCII
representation via the idn command-line program (that is,
http://www.xn--hrkomm-wxa.de) .  One wonders why Lynx
is built with libidn [1] if it can't accept that from either the command
line (where it escapes the domain name as if it were a file name) or in
the program itself (where no decoding is done).

[1] It's definitely linked with libidn:
$ ldd `which lynx`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb77e0000)
        libbz2.so.1 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 (0xb77cf000)
        libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/libidn.so.11 (0xb779c000)
        libslang.so.2 => /usr/lib/libslang.so.2 (0xb7678000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0xb762f000)
        libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0xb75d6000)
        libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0xb7409000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7404000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0xb73ea000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0xb726c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77f9000)