[Info-vax] OSU server, LYNX and character sets

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4f1c9969$0$6853$e4fe514c at news2.news.xs4all.nl>, MG
<marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes: 

> On 22-1-2012 21:59, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> > I have a web page served by the OSU server which contains
> >
> >     <Meta Http-Equiv="Content-Type" Content="text/html; Charset=iso-8859-15">
> >
> > LYNX says:
> >
> >     Charset: iso-8859-1
> >
> > Why the difference?  (In this particular case, all of the characters on
> > the page are actually in iso-8859-1; the overlap between the two is
> > quite large.)
> 
> Wasn't -15 with the euro symbol?

Yes, but also a few other differences; some little-used symbols are 
replaced with letters with diacritics with the result that a large 
number of European languages which use the Latin alphabet can be 
displayed.  

What do people here think of using 8-bit characters and specifying a 
character set as opposed to using the &bla; syntax?