Re: lynx-dev Sending mail

[Leonid Pauzner]

25-Aug-99 21:45 Doug Kaufman wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Harri Tuominen wrote:

>> I also noticed that DOS port of Lynx doesn't translate character set
>> from ISO-8859-1 to CP850, which I have set as display character set,
>> when reading news articles.

> This sounds strange. The DOS port only started doing news recently.
> Perhaps something needs to be tweaked. How do you know that it isn't
> translating the character sets? Did you try setting your display
> character set to something else (say ISO-8859-1)? Are the displays
> identical for characters which should be different?
>                              Doug

Chartrans routines was not implemented for news translation in Lynx (any
port), its output transparent and independent of display charset and document
charset. Of couse it is buggy but nobody implemented yet.