Debian Bug report logs - #261538
w3m: Please enable IDN support.

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From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: w3m: Please enable IDN support.

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:45:37 +0100

Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: l10n

Hi.

It would be nice if w3m supported IDN URLs, as specified in RFC 3490-92.
Mozilla seems to support these already. For example, take a look at the
link on:

http://the.earth.li/~noodles/bio.html

w3m renders this correctly, but doesn't do the conversion to
xn--k4h.earth.li when trying to access the URL.

I /think/ the support should already exist within w3m to deal with this,
it just needs to be enabled and built with idnkit, bicbw.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7dsdthack
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)

Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgc1                      1:6.3-1      Conservative garbage collector for
ii  libgpmg1                    1.19.6-12.1  General Purpose Mouse Library [lib
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7d-3     SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1.1-5  compression library - runtime

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