[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#790847: Fwd: Emoji in lynx

[Sascha Brawer]

Package: lynx
Version 2.8.9dev1-2

[I hope you don't mind that I'm reporting this to Debian via an HTML
e-mail, but it's kind of difficult to show the problem without pictures.
Also, apologies for having told lynx-dev already; next time I'll follow the
rules. -- Sascha]

Is it a known problem that lynx doesn't display Emoji?

To reproduce, install some Emoji font:
$ sudo wget "
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/blob/master/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf?raw=true"
-o /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf

The following works as expected:
$ lynx -dump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji | grep 1F60x
   U+1F60x 😀 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆 😇 😈 😉 😊 😋 😌 😍 😎 😏

Here's a screenshot, just in case:

[image: Inline image 2]

However, when I use lynx to open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
(without -dump), it looks very empty. Note that this is in the same
terminal that had no problem rendering the Emoji in “lynx -dump | grep”
just fine.

[image: Inline image 1]

Just speculating, is this is really a lynx problem, or is perhaps ncurses
broken for Unicode codepoints above U+0FFFF?

$ lynx --version
Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.1 (12 Mar 2014)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.3.8, ncurses 5.9.20140913(wide)
Built on linux-gnu Nov  8 2014 17:56:17

$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24)
x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ ncurses5-config --version
5.9.20140913

Best,

-- Sascha
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