Changeset a4b9cd7 for basicnet

Timestamp:

02/02/2007 11:00:08 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

Alexander E. Patrakov <alexander@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

b7bb66d

Parents:

4972971

Message:

Added caution boxes for packages that are not going to work in UTF-8 locales
Added CUPS and LPRng as recommended a2ps dependencies
Replaced some tabs with spaces

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@6522 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• basicnet/textweb/links.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

basicnet/textweb/links.xml

@@ -34 +34 @@
     tables and frames, features background downloads, can display colors
     and has many other features.</para>
+    
+    <caution>
+      <para>In the text mode, <application>Links</application> cannot be
+      configured to use UTF-8 encoding for the terminal output. This
+      limitation renders <application>Links</application> useless as a
+      text-based browser in UTF-8 locales. See general discussion of this
+      type of issue in the <xref linkend="locale-not-valid-option"/> section
+      on the <xref linkend="locale-issues"/> page.</para>
+
+      <para>In the graphical mode,
+      <application>Links</application> displays text correctly even in
+      UTF-8 locales, if all characters exist in the built-in font used by
+      <application>Links</application>. Form submission in UTF-8 locales
+      is handled correctly when running in X11-based (but not framebuffer-based)
+      graphical mode.</para>
+    </caution>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -133 +149 @@
       files are created automatically when <command>links</command> is run for the
       first time.</para>
+      
+      <para>For the correct display of non-ASCII characters, <application>Links</application>
+      has to be configured through the menu (accessible by pressing the ESC key),
+      as follows:</para>
+      
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>If running <application>Links</application> in the text mode,
+          go to the <quote>Setup &gt; Character set</quote> menu item and select the character
+          set that matches your locale.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Optionally, go to the <quote>Setup &gt; Language</quote> menu
+          and select the user interface language.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Finally, select the <quote>Setup &gt; Save options</quote>
+          menu item.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
 
     </sect3>