Bug 34285 – w3m-0.4.2-r* renders with strange chars

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-11-24 13:33:15 UTC]

I'll attach two screenshots to demonstrate the problem.
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Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-alpha-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.21-alpha-r1)
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System uname: 2.4.21-alpha-r1 alpha EV67
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12
distcc 2.11.2 alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha ~alpha"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev67 -O3 -pipe -mieee"
CHOST="alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/cups /etc/init.d /etc/openldap /etc/postfix/sample /etc/sound /etc/X11/app-defaults /etc/X11/rstart /etc/X11/serverconfig /etc/X11/Sessions /etc/X11/starthere /etc/X11/sysconfig /etc/X11/xdm /etc/X11/xinit /etc/X11/xkb /etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ev67 -O3 -pipe -mieee"
DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache cvs noauto keepwork noclean"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://kant.zk3.dec.com/gentoo/mirror/sources/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/local/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/local/home/agriffis/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/home/agriffis/proj/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="alpha crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mikmod ncurses nls oss pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml gdbm berkdb readline tetex bonobo tcltk guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl python imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt motif opengl mozilla ldap cdr -alsa -apm -arts -esd -java -kde -slang cscope ev6 perl ruby imap snmp socks5 moznoirc moznomail moznocompose gtk2"

[Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-11-24 13:34:08 UTC]

Created attachment 21215 [details]
rendered with 0.4.2 -- good!

[Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-11-24 13:35:10 UTC]

Created attachment 21216 [details]
rendered with 0.4.2-r3 -- bad!

[Comment 3 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2003-11-26 08:35:58 UTC]

Sorry for replying late. Recent w3m includes m17n and unicode support
and defaults to enable them but there is no way to disable them
(I think it's a bug and reported to upstream). What I think happening
in your case is that w3m-0.4.2-r3 uses UTF-8 by default if USE="-cjk"
and if you use UTF-8 incapable terminal it will show strange characters.

For the time being I make US-ASCII as default charset (w3m-0.4.2-r4).
If you want to use graphic character for table and horizontal line and so on,
please enable "Use graphic char for border of table and menu" under
"Display Settings" category of w3mhelperpanel (press "o" to get helper
panel when running w3m).

[Comment 4 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2004-01-21 08:45:00 UTC]

I suppose the problem does not still exist.

[Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-01-21 09:04:11 UTC]

right, it seems to be fine now (in -r4 and -r6)