LYNX, character sets, DECterm

From: Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply (helbig_at_astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:18:14 +0000 (UTC)

Is anyone here familiar with LYNX and its handling of character sets (on
VMS, displayed on DECterm).

What is puzzling me is the following: I thought I would change the
character set a page is served in from iso-8859-1 to iso-8859-15, since
the latter includes the EUR sign. As expected, I get ¤ (compose-x-o),
the "currency symbol" in older browsers and displayed in EDT, but get
EUR with newer browsers (presumably, some newer browsers would display
the Euro symbol instead of EUR if the font were available). However, I
notice that in these newer browsers the character set is still
iso-8859-1 and not iso-8859-15, as it "should" be, based on the
character set the page is coded in. If I change this by hand in the
browser (LYNX, but also Mozilla), then I get ¤ instead of EUR again.

(On a related note, why does EDT, with some symbols, display them as the
corresponding symbol and sometimes as <XX> where XX is the hex value?)

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