[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#862148: Lynx: Long search strings to Google get truncated.

[David Lawyer]

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 07:48:53PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 09:17:22PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> > Package: lynx
> > Varsion: 2.8.9dev13-l
> > 
> > When I type in a search string (in English) to Google or Bing and the length of my
> > search string is longer than the blank space that Goolge or Bing provides
> > for it, the excess part of the string doesn't get typed in (or if it does
> > it doesn't get echoed to the screen).  This problem was not present in
> > dev11-1.  I suspect that this bug is due to the fix for another bug
> > involving the echoing of multi-byte characters #841155 which dev13-1
> > fixed.  But it seems that this fix has resulted in a new bug.
> 
> I see.  While I'm fixing this case, it would be nice to know if the
> original bug report is addressed...
Yes, the typing of search terms in Russian (mult-byte characters) worked
OK in dev13-1 but I probably didn't use long strings.  Thanks for 
getting it fixed.
> 
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			David Lawyer