On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, arthurpeabody wrote: >I'm glad to hear that only I have the problem. What is your lynx's >character set? Your console font?
The character set is UTF-8 of course (otherwise I could not have a distinct beta versus eszett); the font does not matter, because it’s the encoding that is relevant. >I notice your szlig differs from your beta; perhaps you are German or >something like that. I think all the fonts I have double them up. If the eMail I wrote has them different for you, then no, your fonts don’t “double them up” because your mail client used your fonts to render them. You’ve just been using the wrong codepoints all the time if they looked the same for you. You’ll need distinct glyphs for at least… U+03B2 β GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;;0392;;0392 U+00DF ß LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S;Ll;0;L;;;;;N;;;;; … and ideally (though that’s new enough I’ll forgive your fonts for not having it)… U+1E9E ẞ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S;Lu;0;L;;;;;N;;;;00DF; where U+03B2 is the lower-case pendant to U+0392 (Beta) and U+00DF the “eszett”. But even if the glyphs were not distinct, the semantics differ. bye, //mirabilos -- <igli> exceptions: a truly awful implementation of quite a nice idea. <igli> just about the worst way you could do something like that, afaic. <igli> it's like anti-design. <mirabilos> that too… may I quote you on that? <igli> sure, tho i doubt anyone will listen ;)
