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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/22/2012 6:28 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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?

Use &bla; if you are trying to recreate a 199x environment.

Otherwise use 8 bit.

Arne