Re: making "$BEZ20(B $B2mL-(B" say "TSUCHIYA Masatoshi" in Japanese

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Joe Corneli wrote:
 > The question is: how to make sense of the output from
 >
 >  lynx -dump http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/ml/msg07861.html
 >
 > This looks harder than chinese utf translations, though I think that
 > once I get the pattern down, it won't really be any harder (see
 > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2005-03/msg00689.html).
 >
 > But what is the pattern?

You have to pay attention to the HTTP headers sent by the server, in
particular:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp

According to the lynx man page, the -mime_header option "prints the MIME
header of a fetched document along with its source".  Alternatively, you
can call lynx twice, first with the -head option to get just the HTTP
headers and then with -dump to get the content.

You should also try to handle Content-Transfer-Encoding headers.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers