[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#822958: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.9

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + wontfix

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> | Nevertheless, in this case, the fix might have broken something else
> | as it probably caused the following regression reported in Debian
> | today: https://bugs.debian.org/822958
> 
> yes/no: the report noted breakage in an earlier fix to remove the feature:
> 
>     ignore LEFT-TO-RIGHT-MARK (U+200E) in HTML files (Debian #408835) -TD

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.

> If someone sees it "working" in some version, that is accidental
> (i.e., a bug), since neither ncurses nor slang actually support bidi
> in the sense that they know what's on the screen between the
> (zero-width!) markers.

Ok, marking as "wontfix" then.

		Regards, Axel
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