lynx-dev Re: msg00041.html

[Leonid Pauzner]

> > First item says about display charset/font (setup) on client side;
> > while a note about broken pages says about remote document info...
>
> so?  these are a series of points to help beginners
> & i have followed your own submitted text quite closely.
>

Philip, you understand my words quite the opposite and misguide other people
(you see no difference between 'charset' and 'assume_charset' in lynx,
read lynx.cfg at least).

My first posting was:


> > PW wrote: i need help about Forms+Security & about CharacterSets
> > -- which still holds: anyone tell me about Get & Post?  Russian?
> >
>
> Oh, Character Sets...
>
> * Lynx 2.8 have superiour multilingual character sets support.
>
> * To see 8bit characters properly you need to enter 'o'ptions menu
> and choose 'display character set' according to the font you _really_
> have installed for your terminal. If you are not sure - try "7 bit
> approximation" as the safest value. This should be done only once.
>
> * Nethertheless, some documents may looks broken because they are
> not specify charset properly (complain to the author). If you know for sure
> what the document's character set is - you may try a work around:
> in 'o'ptions menu press ^A and choose the appropriate.
>
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