Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have been looking around on;
> http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manual.html
>
> and can't figure out how to perform copy/paste.

In 0.12.GIT at least, the "edit" keymap has "copy-clipboard",
"cut-clipboard", and "paste-clipboard" actions that you can bind
to keys via Setup -> Keybinding manager.  The "copy-clipboard"
action is also available in the "main" keymap.  These actions can
copy the text of the selected BFU or HTML input field to the
ELinks internal clipboard, to the GNU Screen paste buffer, or to
the OS/2 clipboard; and paste it back.  However, there is no
support for the X11 clipboard (related to bug 135) or for copying
only part of the text in the input field (seems part of bug 145).

> Also enabling reading other languages e.g. japanese, chinese.

As those scripts have more than 256 characters, they need
stateful or multibyte character encodings.  At the moment, the
only such encoding supported by ELinks is UTF-8 (except there is
also very limited UTF-16 support for ECMAScript).  To use that:
* Get ELinks 0.12.GIT.  Earlier versions won't work.
* Configure it with --enable-utf-8.
* Enable UTF-8 I/O at Setup -> Terminal options.
* Choose Unicode UTF-8 at Setup -> Character set.
  (This option appears only with --enable-utf-8.)
See bug 822 for reasons why --enable-utf-8 is not yet the default.

The status of the Unicode support with these settings:
* Halfwidth/fullwidth characters should work, except sometimes in
  tables (bug 826).
* All characters received from the server are preserved, so you
  don't inadvertently corrupt Wikipedia articles.  (bug 375)
* All characters received from the terminal are preserved, except
  U+0000 cannot be stored, and U+00A0 may be strangely converted
  (bug 811).
* Only 8-bit characters can be used in key bindings (bug 825)
  and HTML accesskeys (but ECMAScript can set other accesskeys).
* Combining characters are not supported.  (bug 824)
* Right-to-left text is not supported.
* Non-ASCII characters passed to/from ECMAScript are often
  corrupted.  (bug 805)
* ELinks does not recognize C1 controls (U+0080 to U+009F),
  especially when encoded in UTF-8.  (bug 777)
* Only ASCII characters work in XBEL bookmark files.  (bug 153)
* Various equivalences between Unicode character strings have not
  been implemented.  Case folding has been implemented only for
  ASCII, which matters in case-insensitive searches and hotkeys.
* There may be problems with non-ASCII characters in local file
  names.
* HTML lang attributes are not converted to Unicode tag characters.

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