[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#790847: Fwd: Emoji in lynx

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Mon Oct 5 09:26:48 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 07:53:15PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 12:55:15PM +0200, Sascha Brawer wrote:
> > Package: lynx
> > Version 2.8.9dev1-2
> > 
> > [I hope you don't mind that I'm reporting this to Debian via an HTML
> > e-mail, but it's kind of difficult to show the problem without pictures.
> > Also, apologies for having told lynx-dev already; next time I'll follow the
> > rules. -- Sascha]
> > 
> > Is it a known problem that lynx doesn't display Emoji?
> 
> not offhand -- it sounds as if someplace there is a 16-bit assumption.
> I'll have to investigate to pinpoint the problem.

Interestingly, the lynx package in Fedora22 works
(passably with vte
 -- none of the other terminals display Emoji
 -- no need for a list).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
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