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Re: Lynx on Etch



On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:34:14AM +0100, Jasper wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I am a long-time and addicted Lynx-user. But on my new Etch installation
> it looks broken: 
> 
> Google.com looks like:
> 
> ======================================================================
>                                                                 Google
> 
>                                      Personalized Home | Sign in
> 
>                     Happy Holidays from Google
> 
>    Web    Images    Video    News    Maps    more  lClose menu
>    Blogs
>    Books
>    Froogle
>    Groups
>    Patents
>    even more ^J
>      _______________________________________________________
>    Go_______________________________________________________
>    Google Search I'm Feeling Lucky   Advanced Search
>      Preferencesols
>      Language Tools
>    Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google - Go
>    Advertising Programs toBusiness Solutions   About Google   Go
>                         to Google Nederland
>                            206 Google
> 
> http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html
> 
> ======================================================================
> note the doubled input-line and the doubled links on the bottom that
> appear when the cursor comes along. And the 206!
> 
> If I run Lynx in a shell at my ISP it looks like:
> ======================================================================                                                                         
>                                                                 Google
> 
>                                               Personalized Home | Sign
> 
>                         Happy Holidays from Google
> 
>    Web    Images    Video    News    Maps    more ??? Close menu Blogs
>    Books
>    Froogle
>    Groups
>    Patents
>    even more ???
> 
>      _______________________________________________________
>    Google Search I'm Feeling Lucky   Advanced Search
>      Preferences
>      Language Tools
> 
>       Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google - Go to
>                               Google Nederland
> 
>                                 ???2006 Google
> 
> https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.com/
> 
> ========================================================================
> 
> This is copied and pasted at 71 colums wide. A screenshot is at
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjnoe/debian .
> 
> Both are version 2.8.5 rel.1 . The one at my ISP gives messages in
> english, the one here in dutch. In a console it is the same problem.
> 
> Any hints ?
> 
> In a way I suspect it is not a lynx problem, because I saw similar
> things in the installer. Could it have to do with the translations of
> messages into dutch ???
> 
Hi Jasper,
just as a passing thought, sarge used a non-uft8 locale by default while
etch is using a utf8 locale by default. So, check that.
cheers,
Kev
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