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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i586; U;) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
In the default /etc/lynx.cfg one can find: #CHARACTER_SET:iso-8859-1, at least
in the German version of Red Hat Linux. I don't know what the default character
set of lynx is since this option isn't enabled. However, if I try to read German
internet sites, I'm not able to read the umlauts -- German special characters. I
thought RH 8 is entirely based on utf-8. That's why, I tried to set
CHARACTER_SET:utf-8 in the /etc/lynx.cfg file and enabled this option. Yep, now
I can read the German umlauts. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Lynx Programmversion 2.8.5dev.7 (06 Jan 2002)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open lynx at the prompt.
2. Try to read a German internet site like www.pro-linux.de.

    

Actual Results:  All umlauts are "kauderwelsch" (not readable).

Expected Results:  The umlauts should be readable.