Re: Way to define character set when doing newspost? LYNX-DEV

[Hynek Med]

On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, H E Nelson wrote:

> Seldom do posting to news groups, but recently used the news posting
> feature of Lynx for the first time.  I was told that I was using
> EUC when I should be using ISO-2022-JP; many people could not read
> the post.  My defaults in both lynx.cfg and .lynxrc are set to
> `preferred document c(H)arset : ISO-2022-JP'.  I have used mailto's
> with no problem in the past, but admitedly quite some time ago.
> It seems that the news reader/poster I've used until now (gn) auto-
> matically sets the character set to the right one.  I do have the
> environment variable LANG set to japanese and setterm -x SJIS.  Is
> there any way to set the character set for newspost in Lynx?
> 
> This was Lynx Version 2.7.1ac-0.28, on SunOS 4.1.3-JL 1 sun4c,
> compiled with gcc version 2.7.2, using slang0.99-38.

I'm not sure about news, but in e-mail the messages are marked with your
_Display_ charset.. 

Hynek

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