Re: lynx doesn't render β as β

Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:07:13 +0200 (CEST)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, arthurpeabody wrote:

>It's available; it renders &szlig; as =CE=B2.

That would be wrong.

>I've  tried every ISO character set. It used to. I didn't notice when
>it changed. The same happens for &#946; lynx returns ?, what it returns
>for undisplayable characters.

Must be a you thing, I=E2=80=99m afraid. (Or a version thing.)

tg@x61p:~ $ cat x.htm
a &beta; c &szlig; d
tg@x61p:~ $ lynx -dump x.htm
   a =CE=B2 c =C3=9F d

Which is correct. (This is on Debian bullseye, 2.9.0rel.1-0.2)

bye,
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