[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#883184: lynx: add an option to specify the charset of the document

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.9dev16-2
Severity: wishlist

lynx should have an option to specify the charset of a document.
This would allow to get the correct charset when it is specified
in an external way, e.g. in "Content-Type:" in e-mail messages.

The -assume_charset option cannot be used because such HTML files
generally contain a meta http-equiv with a charset that do not match
the actual charset (I assume that there was a charset conversion when
sending the file by e-mail, but the content itself as a sequence of
characters, in particular the meta http-equiv, wasn't modified). This
is silly, but valid.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lynx depends on:
ii  libbsd0       0.8.6-3
ii  libbz2-1.0    1.0.6-8.1
ii  libc6         2.25-2
ii  libgnutls30   3.5.16-1
ii  libidn11      1.33-2
ii  libncursesw5  6.0+20171125-1
ii  libtinfo5     6.0+20171125-1
ii  lynx-common   2.8.9dev16-2
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages lynx recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.60

lynx suggests no packages.

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