Hi Ben, On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:03:50 -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> We first found this problem when visiting http://www.google.ca/ in Lynx while > on the console. The display was messed up because we do not have console > fonts for Japanese. Many characters were just blank or blocks. The result > was an unreadable page. > > In LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 we really have no need of lynx-cur-wrapper anyway, > so purging the package "solved" the problem. But it appears the maintainer's > language is Japanese, or at least that's what is set in lynx.cfg.dflt so if > the > locale is not recognized, it falls back to that. It doesn't seem like > a sane default, though. You are right. Its default at present is correct only for Japanese users, sorry for any inconvenience. > It caused us much confusion because we never > even asked to have lynx-cur-wrapper installed (I guess the Debian-installer > did this on our behalf about two months ago, but i don't remember which > tasks we asked the installer to use. Probably just 'standard' if I were to > guess.) I'll fix the problem soon but if Debian-installer automatically installs lynx-cur-wrapper, it is certainly wrong as far as I can say. If you have any information on this please let me know. Thanks for your report. Regards, 2008-12-22(Mon) -- Debian Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org> Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
