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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

Re Opera and Unicode

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>  What things can 6.11 do that 5.05 can't?
> 
> Opera 6.x does Unicode and has improved keyboard support.  

So does Lynx 2.8.3 (by interpolation):

It turns out that my bbs has lynx 2.8.4, 2.8.2, 2.71, 2.6 and 2.5 to
experiment on.  I set them all to 7-bit approximations, and then later I
set 2.71 and 2.8.x to CP1251 (2.5 has only koi8 for Cyrillic).  I loaded
cp1251.f16 and viewed a test site

(www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html)  

where you can read 'what is unicode' in lots of languages, in Unicode. 
2.5 and 2.6 display garbage as 7-bit approximations.  2.71 and later
display readable approximations and also good Cyrillic.  So there is no
really compelling reason to upgrade to Lynx 2.8.4 (though the left-right
scrolling over a wider screen, and the reverse search, sound useful).

I will attempt Opera 5.05 (after X) and use it in conjunction with Lynx
2.83 if I need to view Unicode.