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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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jim mock <mij@{soupnazi|opendarwin}.org>               jim@FreeBSD.org


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