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

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Axel Beckert" <abe at debian.org>
| To: lynx-dev at nongnu.org
| Cc: 822958 at bugs.debian.org, 822958-submitter at bugs.debian.org
| Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 11:22:26 AM
| Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.9
| 
| 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.
| 

no problem: there's something to explore in ncurses, but for lynx the problem is compounded
by (a) lynx needing to know what's on the screen, and (b) the issue of how much text is BIDI -
potentially the entire document...

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