Weird text scrolling issue in RtL text

Question

Weird text scrolling issue in RtL text

QuickQuokka opened this issue 2 years ago · 7 comments

Here is an example with the Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedia

Text scrolls over when you move the text cursor.

Answer 1 · 2022-07-15T08:37:55.000Z

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 05:47:10PM -0700, QuickQuokka wrote: [Here is an example with the Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedia](https://asciinema.org/a/hLY8PXDPO9s6laNPNxfDt7A7E) Text scrolls over when you move the text cursor.

What terminal emulator are you using? Does this also happen in xterm?

Answer 2 · 2022-07-15T19:15:18.000Z

I used konsole.

Same on XTerm

Answer 3 · 2022-07-16T11:40:54.000Z

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:15:28PM -0700, QuickQuokka wrote: I used konsole. Same on XTerm

he.wikipedia.org works for me. We need more information. Which version are you running? Does it also happen when you start w3m with '-config /dev/null'?

Answer 4 · 2022-07-16T13:07:10.000Z

Version is w3m-0.5.3.git20220409_1-1

Same issue with /dev/null

Answer 5 · 2022-07-16T13:43:19.000Z

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 06:07:20AM -0700, QuickQuokka wrote: Version is `w3m-0.5.3.git20220409_1-1`

This doesn't look like an official version tag, where is this coming from?

Answer 6 · 2022-07-16T18:11:00.000Z

pacman -Q --info w3m

Name            : w3m
Version         : 0.5.3.git20220409_1-1
Description     : Text-based Web browser as well as pager
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : openssl  gc  ncurses  gpm
Optional Deps   : imlib2: for graphics support [installed]
Required By     : w3m-imgcat
Optional For    : neofetch  ranger
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 2.04 MiB
Packager        : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Wed 04 May 2022 07:26:01 PM EEST
Install Date    : Thu 05 May 2022 04:08:48 PM EEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

according to w3m -version it's w3m version w3m/0.5.3+git20220429, options lang=en,m17n,image,color,ansi-color,mouse,gpm,menu,cookie,ssl,ssl-verify,external-uri-loader,nntp,gopher,ipv6,alarm,mark

Answer 7 · 2022-07-16T18:15:36.000Z

Sorry I'm an idiot this is not a w3m specific issue

https://asciinema.org/a/jIcUBaQEYWCKaBVuyofQLnxPP