Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:38:36 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dd@freebsd.org>, Jim Mock <jim@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: links screwing up .TXT files Message-ID: <20021013203835.GJ10829@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021013171105.GC27365@nathan.internal> References: <20021013171105.GC27365@nathan.internal>
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--LpQ9ahxlCli8rRTG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On 2002-10-13 19:11, Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> wrote: > Hi, > I just found a rather annoying problem with the links1 browser that > is used to create the .TXT files for the documentation project. > The problem is known to affect the DE version but probably affects > all versions that have non-standard characters. That's been hitting the Greek version of the TXT files too, for quite some time. I tried tinkering with options of links1, but failed to find a proper combination of flags, environment variables and options that allows links1 to properly output the 8-bit characters that the Greek documentation files (mostly) contain. > The problem lies with the way links (to be precise, the links1 port > 0.98,1) renders characters like the German umlaut characters. Any 8-bit character is evenly broken with links1. > Any ideas how to solve this problem? For the time being, we've > gone back to w3m in order to create the German text files. I'm using w3m locally to test and verify that there is nothing wrong with the way documents are written. It seems to work fine so far... Thanks for bringing this up. I've been meaning to post a message for quite some time, but always stopped moments before posting, hoping that I had overlooked some option of links1. I've also seen that doc/share/mk/doc.html.mk was changed in revision 1.5 to use links instead of w3m by Jim Mock (by request of Jordan Hubbard and Dima Dorfman). The log doesn't mention why the change was made though. Dima, Jim, Jordan... do you remember why this change was made, so we don't repeat an old mistake and try switching back to w3m? Giorgos. --LpQ9ahxlCli8rRTG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9qdnL1g+UGjGGA7YRAswxAJ9j2jwDFCJ2zu05k1W30g18niNavQCgu599 05B0iHB7VSmN5p/mpdJlNeM= =+wcy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LpQ9ahxlCli8rRTG-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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