#164097 links: <sup> is not properly supported

Package:
links
Source:
links2
Description:
Web browser running in text mode
Submitter:
Peter Karlsson
Date:
2011-08-19 00:27:08 UTC
Severity:
normal
#164097#5
Date:
2002-10-10 08:01:19 UTC
From:
To:
Marking up the number "2^48" as "2<sup>48</sup>" will display as "248" in
Links. A proper way of displaying this would be "2^48" (as Lynx does).
#164097#10
Date:
2002-10-10 16:43:48 UTC
From:
To:
Please install 'elinks' package, and check whether it still a problem.

P.
#164097#15
Date:
2002-10-10 17:58:58 UTC
From:
To:
Peter Gervai:

elinks is not installable on Woody, and I have currently not moved to
testing/unstable on any of my machines.
#164097#20
Date:
2002-10-10 22:06:03 UTC
From:
To:
Hej,

Hmm, I see, but woody probably won't get fixed that easy backwards anyway.


Ohkay, I'm a saint, compiled you a woody image,

ftp://yikes.tolna.net/pub/linux/release/debian/

It ought to work better, please check. However notice that it's compiled
with openssl library, which sort of violates GPL (long debate), that's
probably a reason it won't be ever uploaded into debian.

Peter
#164097#25
Date:
2002-10-11 04:55:58 UTC
From:
To:
Peter Gervai:

Yes, elinks displays 2<sup>48</sup> as "2^48".
#164097#30
Date:
2010-12-22 17:14:05 UTC
From:
To:
Even though you may have solved your problem with elinks, but links
seems to have the same problem in later versions as well.
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I created the file sup.html:

<html><head></head><body>
2<sup>48</sup>
</body></html>

I opened it with "links sup.html" command, and links showed 248 instead of 2^48.
(I have checked that <sup> tag in that file works with other browsers.)
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I was running Debian 5.0.7 (lenny) with Linux Kernel 2.6.26-2-686.
Versions of the packages are:
sh-3.2$ dpkg -l | egrep 'links|libc6|libgpm2|libssl0.9.8|zlib1g'
ii  libc6                                2.7-18lenny6
       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libc6-dev                            2.7-18lenny6
      GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
ii  libc6-i686                           2.7-18lenny6
      GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi
ii  libgpm2                              1.20.4-3.1
      General Purpose Mouse - shared library
ii  libssl0.9.8                          0.9.8g-15+lenny9
      SSL shared libraries
ii  links                                2.1pre37-1.1
      Web browser running in text mode
ii  zlib1g                               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12
      compression library - runtime
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Aras Ergus