From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JP; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Debian/1.7.3-3 Description of problem: elinks can't show the euc-jp page on UTF-8 locale. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): elinks-0.9.2-0.rc7.4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.elinks http://www.yahoo.co.jp/ 2. 3. Actual Results: shows unreadable strings Expected Results: shows Japanese correctly Additional info:
elinks also doesn't work for CJK. for another testcase, LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8 elinks http://kr.yahoo.com/ LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 elinks http://cn.yahoo.com/ LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 elinks http://tw.yahoo.com/
I have feedback about it from upstream developers. Elinks doesn't use UTF8 internaly and doens't expect it in rendering algorithms. Elink does conversion to UTF8 before output to screen -- but for multibytes like ko_KR.UTF-8 it destroys everything that rendering alorithm prepared for page. Other words, elinks hasn't real UTF8 support.
Closing bug - proper support for UTF-8 in "elinks" has to be done upstream.