#271834 lynx: mailcap text-formatting entry neither honors file charset nor recognizes locale

Package:
lynx
Source:
lynx
Description:
classic non-graphical (text-mode) web browser
Submitter:
Ilya Anfimov
Date:
2015-02-21 14:21:09 UTC
Severity:
normal
#271834#5
Date:
2004-09-15 15:06:49 UTC
From:
To:
grotty:<standard input>:5: character above first line discarded

  Current  lynx mailcap entry doesn't take info on charset of the
document when it is possible.  It leads  to  weird  results  when
charset is specified only in MIME message headers, and not in the
html file itself.

 Better strings could be:



text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html %s  -display_charset "`locale charmap`" -assume_charset %{charset}; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html %s -assume_charset %{charset}; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html

grotty:<standard input>:5: character above first line discarded

 Also  note, that option LOCALE_CHARSET:TRUE would be better than
-display_charset "`locale charset`", but i  didn't  found  it  in
command  line  parameters of lynx, and it is not turned on by de-
fault, unfortunately.
#271834#10
Date:
2015-02-21 14:16:08 UTC
From:
To:
On 2004-09-15 Ilya Anfimov <tzirechnoy@hotpop.com> wrote:
[...]

Hello,
Afaict that would break if there was no charset specified in the MIME
message headers.
[...]

LOCALE_CHARSET is nowadays enabled by default, so at least this part
of the report is fixed.

cu Andreas