On Sun, 11 Jan 2026, Mouse wrote:

>> For the case of declared latin1, contains utf-8, you could do a
>> rather evil thing of temporarily switching the display charset to
>> latin1 and â??Raw 8-bitâ?? to ON.
>
>That *is* evil!

I said so :þ

>> That might just work, if you use lynx in the C.UTF-8 locale and
>> donâ??t have any nÅ?n-ASCII UI strings.
>
>It also depends on the UTF-8 to not use any 0x80-0x9f octets (which

“Raw 8-bit” ought to handle that, no? But yes, this is… only something
of last resort.

>It will also cause the terminal to advance by one character position
>per UTF-8 character when lynx is expecting it to advance by one
>position per octet.  This may or may not break anything, depending on
>various factors, probably including some I'm not aware of.

Yes, that’ll be fun… not that lynx handles predominantly nōn-Latin
text well anyway.

But the OP used lynx -dump, so…

I included the perlre(1) as a better hack.

bye,
//mirabilos
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18:47⎜<mirabilos:#!/bin/mksh> well channels… you see, I see everything in the
same window anyway      18:48⎜<xpt:#!/bin/mksh> i know, you have some kind of
telnet with automatic pong         18:48⎜<mirabilos:#!/bin/mksh> haha, yes :D
18:49⎜<mirabilos:#!/bin/mksh> though that's more tinyirc – sirc is more comfy

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