This phenomenon occurred more than once on the same page but the letter was “b” instead of “s”. So it´s not restricted to a particular letter.
I tried again today, but the “s” would still be there.
O.K., then there must be something fundamentally curious about the combination
of lxterminal and w3m because …
the combination of w3m and xfce4-terminal didn´t produce this effect:
Well, this never occurred to me, Paul.
Curious that lxterminal would do things like these when it´s supposed to just display the contents of a website (using w3m).
You might be right all the same though.
Thanks for the link. The usage of “yous” was new to me.
It has a settings tab but nothing TERM-related is to be seen.
Sorry, Neville.
Well, the phenomenon doesn´t bother me all too much.
it´s just something curious I have no explanation of.
It might be grammar checking after all, like Paul suggested.
Thanks all and many greetings from Rosika
P.S.:
Update:
I just stumbled across something else inexplicable:
Although there are a few occurrences of an additional letter introduced (in a different colour) on the webpage I found out that´s easy to get rid of it by just scrolling down with the mousewheel.
As soon as scrolling starts the additional letters vanish and the whitespace between the two words is clearly displayed, as it should be.
Maybe 'cause space in a URL is “%s” - I don’t really know…
It always annoyed me when copying a full URL path - where there were spaces it came up as “%s”…
Ugly…
Not the ugliest URL though - the truly UGLY URLs I recall either have an *.exe at the end, or worse: a *.dll (or even a dll file somewhere in the URL)… Best way I can think of to advertise yourself to hackers!
Well that tested me.
No there is no way to change what type of terminal it emulates.
It must be hardwired. echo $TERM
from inside an lxterminal will tell you what it is.
BTW… I tried w3m in Termux
It runs, but I could not enter anything. Had to kill Termux to get out.
Thanks. That´s good to know.
Thanks also for the link. To be honest, I´ve never heard of “byte-order mark (BOM)”.
Well, that´s interesting.
Amazing how much there is left for me to learn. Oh my! .
BTW:
any news about:
…
Have you tried entering w3m with a dedicated URL assigned?
Like w3m "https://itsfoss.community"
That should work.
Yes, you´re right. I like it a lot, too.
For me the its main benefit is that it´s a great help in saving quite a lot of data.
As I´m on a metered connection (5 GB per 28 days) I make excessive use of w3m at the beginning of each billing period.
No unnecessary images (animated or otherwise) have to be downloaded. Saves quite a lot of data this way.
Thanks for mentioning ting. It´s all new to me.
env LANG=en_GB:en apt-cache show timg
[...]
Description-en: terminal image and video viewer
A user-friendly viewer that uses 24-Bit color capabilities and unicode
character blocks to display images, animations and videos in the terminal.
[...]
So it´s not only an image viewer but a video viewer as well. Interesting.