Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:12:04 -0800 From: Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>, bmah@FreeBSD.org, chris@unixpages.org, ceri@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HTML2TXT Message-ID: <1853809F-481B-11D7-B2B0-000393460DB2@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030223183109.GC3812@gothmog.gr>
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On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 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.
We actually used w3m after the initial lynx switch, but dumped it for
links due to w3m's dependency on boehm-gc.
- jim
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