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FS#79442 - [lynx] utf-8 by default

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Legion (fwam) - Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 15:15 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:25 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

lynx, currently, is using iso-8859-1 by default, making many pages break (e.g. different languages of archwiki)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Moved
Additional comments about closing:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/lynx/issues/1
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 22:03 GMT
It can be changed in the options at runtime. To change compile time default it appears "userdefs.h" would need to be modified. e.g.

#define CHARACTER_SET "utf-8"
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 16:00 GMT
Has upstream been approached to change the default or provide a configure switch setting the default?

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