[iyonix-support] Netsurf Printing; !Unicode.
- From: Gary Locock <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:07:51 +0100
Not about to start yet another thread about the woeful state of browsers for
RO in general and the Iyonix very much in particular, but a quick recap for
those who've been asleep: !Oregano2 is the Iyonix standard. It is execrable,
bug-ridden, but just about still works in most respects if you are patient
and not fussy about layout. !Firefox might be a promising 'work in
progress'; it is not 'consumer-quality' yet. The others are useless to
varying degrees (YMMV), except for the exceedingly competent !Netsurf, and as
long as you don't want Javascript.
But on the Iyonix, we can't even use !Netsurf, if we need to print out a
webpage; which IME is 'very often'.
"Printing on RISC OS 5 doesn't work, due to lack of support in the Font
Manager and printer drivers" says the Netsurf help pages, and this has been
the situation since ...forever. And it is still the case.
The Netsurf developers IIRC have an issue with !Unicode/iconv support on RO5
which they have described as 'broken'.
If so, when is it likely to be fixed please?
It can't be so very bad to sort out, since Netsurf pages can be rendered as
drawfiles and /then/ printed on the Iyonix as a workround, but this is
scarcely convenient or friendly.
The browser situation is bad enough without the Iyo having this additional
handicap.
Gary
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