Re: [Lynx-dev] Chinese characters are not displayed when using charset gb2312/euc-cn

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 05:09:53PM +0200, Cédric Hannotier via Lynx-dev wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I got an HTML email with gb3212 charset.
> s/3232/2312/
> 
> > It seems that lynx is unable to print some characters.
> 
> yes... I see that the problem is that lynx's conversion of euc-cn to utf-8
> is incomplete.  This is not a new issue as you can see here:
> 
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=gb2312&submit=Search%21&idxname=lynx-dev&max=20&result=normal&sort=date%3Alate
> 
> > Changing the declared charset to euc-cn gives the same result.
> 
> gb2312 is equated to euc-cn internally.
> 
> > Using another browser works (qutebrowser).
> > First converting that file to utf-8 (using iconv) also works.
> 
> yes, lynx uses iconv after organizing the characters :-)
>  
> > Lynx build is from Debian testing:
> > 
> > Lynx Version 2.9.0dev.6 (05 Sep 2020)

I had some time today (which I'd intended working on another feature for lynx),
and implemented this as an experimental feature (which the packager may adopt
in dev.7 -- when I finish that other feature).

see

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/5111b5306b278cecb0b66166eb8338072fc713c6

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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