Re: www/w3m: m17n flavor

[naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Yozo TODA <yozo_(_at_)_imit_(_dot_)_chiba-u_(_dot_)_ac_(_dot_)_jp> wrote:

>   env FLAVOR=kanji-m17n make package
> doesn't work, of course.

env FLAVOR='kanji m17n' make package

This will currently build w3m with
1. Japanese menus and documentation,
2. internal use of Unicode for character set conversion,
3. UTF-8 display by default.

(3) is really a minor point, as the display character set can easily
be changed in the option panel or even from the command line (e.g.
"-o display_charset=ISO-8859-1").

The real alternative is replacing (2) with an ISO-2022-based scheme.
Possibly it doesn't convert at all then, maybe it merely uses
kterm's ISO 2022 character set switching abilities.  I know too
little about East Asian character set issues.  I am fairly certain,
though, that this doesn't affect monolingual Japanese texts at all.
It may make some difference when you mix Japanese and Chinese.

BTW, I think that "kanji" is a misnomer for the flavor.  I should
probably just change it to "japanese".  Opinions?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de