Russian charsets

From: Lena@lena.kiev.ua
Date: Sat, Nov 03 2001

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    From: Lena@lena.kiev.ua
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Date: Sun,  4 Nov 2001 02:27:25 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Russian charsets

Hi Clement,

<www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it> while executing GET command
still continues to transliterate Russian text by Latin characters
rendering text very inconvenient for reading. Specifying
XCHARSET doesn't help.

Two examples:

1. http://www.comnews.ru/index.cfm?id=2340
XDOCINFO gives just "Content-Type: text/html", without charset
specification. The page contains
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251">
SOURCE command gives the page in windows-1251 charset.

2. http://halyava.ru/elena/m2f-rus.htm
XDOCINFO gives "Content-Type: text/html; charset=koi8-r".
SOURCE command gives the page in koi8-r charset.

For both these pages GET command gives the page transliterated
by Latin characters no matter how I specify XCHARSET:
xcharset koi8-r
xcharset windows-1251
xcharset auto
or without XCHARSET command at all, with
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii" in header
or the letter with GET command.

I last tried on October 30-31 (version pre3.0rc14c).

To read Russian text written by Latin characters is very
inconvenient and slow. Can Lynx be forbidden to convert
one charset into another?

Thanks,

Lena