lynx-dev suggestion about charsets unknown by lynx (fwd)

[T.E.Dickey]

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> Hello dickey, 
>  
>   i have pages in KOI8-U charset (KOI8-Ukrainian). 
>   The Lynx 2.8.2, which i use doesn't support this charset, 
>   but it's not very differs from KOI8-R (only 6 characters). 
>  
>   My Unix terminal configured to treat the KOI8-U as KOI8-R, 
>   all characters, needed for KOI8-U charset is correctly viewed 
>   on screen. 
>  
>   But Lynx don't accept this charset and give me only two 
>   choises: save page to file, or cancel :( 
>  
>   i know the ways, how to avoid this problem, but each of them 
>   is brain-damaged (like adding new charset to Lynx source code or to 
>   refuse using KOI8-U for my HTML-documents). 
>  
>   The simplest way, i see, is to give a user the third choice, when 
>   Lynx don't know the charset: 
>  
>   1. download in file 
>   2. cancel 
>   3. view in charset, which user can select - this will be good 
>   replacement for -assume_unrec_charset command option. 
>  
>   Also it's would be good if i would be able in lynx.cfg file 
>   to add my own charsets to threat them as 
>   other, already known charset. 
>  
> Best regards, 
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