000606 Klaus Weide wrote:
PW> presumably `\305' is the code for `u^', as i vulgarly transliterate it
KW> To see lynx's best effort at rendering such characters, you should have
KW> saved his text to a file,

which, of course, i did ... (wry smile)

KW> and then should have told lynx about the character encoding;

ah, that bit's new: is UTF-8 Esperanto?

KW>  lynx -assume_charset=utf-8 /whereever/saved-snippet.html

that reveals the character as a simple `u', ie it omits the caret OWIC.
 
KW> or just view the archived message at
KW>  <http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month062000/msg00075.html>.

no, that doesn't work, as it shows SP's rendered version.

the correct UTF-8 character won't appear here for me,
as i don't have it in my XT accessed via Kermit 315 .
i have long wondered exactly how you get alternative charsets with DOS,
the explanations on offer seeming to omit vital bits of info.
French/German accents are ok, as they're in normal ASCII.

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