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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:31:09 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:        bmah@FreeBSD.org, chris@unixpages.org, ceri@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HTML2TXT
Message-ID:  <20030223183109.GC3812@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20030223.184643.39155017.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
References:  <20030222220857.GD8729@submonkey.net> <20030222234326.GH625@unixpages.org> <20030223051127.GA29932@intruder.bmah.org> <20030223.184643.39155017.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>

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On 2003-02-23 18:46, Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
> "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > www/links1 is what's intended, and that's what's used as a
> > dependency by the textproc/docproj port.  We used to use www/lynx
> > at one point in time, but for a time it was FORBIDDEN due to
> > security concerns.  I don't know its current status.
>
> I do not know the current status of www/lynx, too,
> but I prefer it since www/links1 has no Asian encoding support.
> Japanese docs in FDP cannot be typeset as plain text for a long time.

links has no support when dumping to text for anything but en_US.
The text versions of Greek documents I was trying to write have never
worked with links either.

For testing purposes, in my local doc tree I have changed links with
w3m.  So far things work nicely, but I'm not sure what it takes to
push a conversion from links to w3m in the textproc/docproj port.


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