Hello, The system-wide config file for elinks provided with the recent ebuilds, elinks-1.10.4.conf, sets the default character set to us-ascii and the default document encoding to ISO-8859-2. On the other hand, if the keys doing so are not specified ELinks uses the relevant settings from the system (i.e. the locale), which is more convenient to manage, especially when running in Unicode mode - for some reason the character set menu within the program doesn't allow for selecting UTF-8. Attached you will find a patch which removes the aforementioned keys from elinks-1.10.4.conf.
Created attachment 101194 [details, diff] elinks-0.10.4.conf-syscharset.diff
Added to CVS. Thanks for the patch!