Re: lynx-dev Lynx does not open some http sites, forces download

[Leonid Pauzner]

1-Feb-99 12:08 Philip Webb wrote:
> 990201 Ismael Cordeiro wrote:
>> I don't know if any of the Lynx developers knows Russian,

> not very well, but i have read Dostoievsky & Solzhenitsyn with a dictionary.
!

>> so let's try to find out where the problem is.
>> Check the lines below with your mailreader and with Lynx
>> in the Lynx-Dev archives at http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html
>> and tell me which ones ("a" or "b"), if any, are correctly displayed
>> when using KOI8-R or (ISO 8859-5, CP866, Windows-1251) in your terminal.

> their all garbage, tho' they differ a bit.
> NB i get latinised Ukrainian with Lynx on the original site,
> which is -- as the inquirer said -- like Dutch for German,
> maybe because Kermit does a very good attempt at character translation.

No, that is Lynx which use src/chrtrans/def7_uni.tbl substitutions
for characters not found in your "display charset".