On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:23:00PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: > Opening http://www.debian.org/security/2006/index.de.html using lynx > in a UTF-8 locale I do not get the proper encoding. > > Example: > lynx -dump http://www.debian.org/security/2006/index.de.html | \ > grep "n Sie einen Server in Ih" > W�len Sie einen Server in Ihrer N�e > > Expected: > Wählen Sie einen Server in Ihrer Nähe > > Converting the output from latin1 to UTF-8 helps but should be done by > lynx.
I now noticed that there where some replies to this bug but without [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me) in CC:, bad! OK, I tried lynx-cur-wrapper which uses lynx-cur. The result is better: "Waehlen Sie einen Server in Ihrer Naehe". "ae" is the proper 7bit transliteration of "ä". But there is no need to reduce the display to 7bit in a UTF-8 environment. I also find the usage of a wrapper function to enable locale support very funny! This should be handled directly in the program as every locale aware program does it (e.g. via setlocale() function). Jens
