Re: [Lynx-dev] Chinese characters are not displayed when using charset gb2312/euc-cn

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 05:09:53PM +0200, Cédric Hannotier via Lynx-dev wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I got an HTML email with gb3212 charset.
s/3232/2312/

> It seems that lynx is unable to print some characters.

yes... I see that the problem is that lynx's conversion of euc-cn to utf-8
is incomplete.  This is not a new issue as you can see here:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=gb2312&submit=Search%21&idxname=lynx-dev&max=20&result=normal&sort=date%3Alate

> Changing the declared charset to euc-cn gives the same result.

gb2312 is equated to euc-cn internally.

> Using another browser works (qutebrowser).
> First converting that file to utf-8 (using iconv) also works.

yes, lynx uses iconv after organizing the characters :-)
 
> Lynx build is from Debian testing:
> 
> Lynx Version 2.9.0dev.6 (05 Sep 2020)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.7.0, ncurses 6.2.20201114(wide)
> Built on linux-gnu.
> 
> Someone else tested it with both 2.8.9rel.1 debian 3 (from Debian 10)
> and 2.9.0dev.6 debian 2, but none of them worked.
> 
> The HTML can be found there: https://ttm.sh/FJP.html
> 
> Regards
> -- 
> 
> Cédric Hannotier
> 
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