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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:26:48AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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).

Further checking in Debian/testing shows me that wcwidth() is returning -1's
for these values (which is incorrect, it should return 1's).  Lynx is behaving
correctly for this case -- it has no way to tell that the characters "should"
print as expected.

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