Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:42:23 -0700 From: Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>, Dima Dorfman <dd@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: links screwing up .TXT files Message-ID: <20021013214223.GA72310@soupnazi.org> In-Reply-To: <20021013203835.GJ10829@hades.hell.gr> References: <20021013171105.GC27365@nathan.internal> <20021013203835.GJ10829@hades.hell.gr>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 at 23:38:36 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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? I think it was because w3m depends on boehm-gc and would require that to be installed for release builds as well. - jim -- jim mock <mij@soupnazi.org> jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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