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Re: [Lynx-dev] Only half CJK characters displayed


From: Mouse
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Only half CJK characters displayed
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:31:06 -0500 (EST)

> I encountered some problems rendering CJK fonts inside browser. Steps
> to reproduce:

> 1. Lynx 2.8.9rel.1, Alacritty, Sway WM and Noto CJK fonts

> 2. Visit Japanese Wikipedia. Only half characters shown.
>      Screenshot: <https://w.wiki/qzr>

I can't see the screenshot, because w.wiki has drunk the "ram HTTPS
down everyone's throat" koolaid.  But it seems to me this is more
likely to be a terminal emulator issue than a lynx issue.

> 3. Open another terminal and `cat` the page cache at /tmp/lynxXXXX/*.html
> 4. Close current Lynx instance and relaunch Lynx in another terminal.
> 5. Visit Japanese Wikipedia, now full characters are shown.
>      Screenshot: <https://w.wiki/qzt>
> 6. Delete font cache in ~/.cache
> 7. Visit Japanese Wikipedia, half characters shown again.

Yes, this sounds like an infrastructure issue, something wrong with
font caching and/or generation in the terminal emulator and/or
underlying display system.  (I don't see any statement I recognize as
being a description of the terminal emulator or underlying font
infrastructure, though I do see some names I don't recognize, so that
could be me.  Certainly the X I know doesn't keep anything in ~/.cache,
so either this isn't X or it's doing client-side rendering or some such
"modern" insanity.)

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