Re: [Lynx-dev] Unicode-marking, &c

[Thorsten Glaser]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

>Lynx assumes the document charset is ISO-8859-1 if it's not given.

This is wrong.

Lynx assumes the document charset, if it’s not given, is the one
set forth in /etc/lynx.cfg:ASSUME_LOCAL_CHARSET.

>(That was the rule for some time - for HTML - perhaps we're not
>discussing HTML anymore).

The X*ML rule is UTF-8 for unlabelled content, though.

bye,
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