Re: [Lynx-dev] Dumps Unicode file in broken encoding.

[Thorsten Glaser]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

> Without some charset in the document, or override via command-line or lynx
> configuration, the file will be treated as ISO-8859-1.  He seems to be
> expecting lynx to treat it as UTF-8.

I think this is what recent (X)HTML/HTTP standards assume as well.
This is the reason I changed that locally – but you probably can
only change the default on a full-UTF-8 operating system, since
changing the assumed character set for local files would break OSes
without locale and Unicode support, such as OpenBSD. Besides, some
(few) webpages still display badly as they do not declare their
character set, but the “webmasters” usually fix it upon reporting.

bye,
//mirabilos
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