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

[Joseph Huber]

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.)

Firefox does see the charset meta tag. It is probably lynx ignoring it, lynx  
has config and command-line options for default charset to replace those 
unrecognized.
The HTTP header sent by OSU by the way does not contain charset information, 
for a html document it looks like;

HTTP/1.0 200 Sending cached data
MIME-version: 1.0
Server: OSU/3.10a;UCX
Content-type: text/html
Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
Content-length: 141
Last-Modified: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:33:07 GMT
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:44:55 GMT
    
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