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

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Sun May 1 00:33:37 UTC 2016


Hi,

On 2016-04-30 17:22:26 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 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.

OK, interesting information. If I understand correctly, all ncurses
based applications should filter out these bidi marks.

BTW, Mutt has display issues with these bidi marks:

  https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3827

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