Lynx run in Putty window to show UTF-8 web page:

Press o (option), set "Display character set" to "UNICODE (UTF-8)", Save options to disk, Accept Changes
"Assumed document character set" should be saved to utf-8 but won't persist. Have to do this instead:
cp /etc/lynx.cfg ~
vi ~/lynx.cfg and change #ASSUME_CHARSET:iso-8859-1 to ASSUME_CHARSET:utf-8.
Run Lynx: lynx -cfg=~/lynx.cfg
or: alias lynx='lynx -cfg=~/lynx.cfg'

Putty Window -> Translation- -> UTF-8

Note:
* Web page file must be true UTF-8; e.g. Notepad Save as Encoding "UTF-8" OK, "Unicode" not OK.)
* Works on Linux, may not work on *BSD

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Elinks run in Putty window to show UTF-8 web page:

ELinks 0.12 and up only:
Esc to go to menu -> Setup -> Character set -> (scroll down) Unicode UTF-8

Putty Window -> Translation- -> UTF-8

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To show Chinese encoded in GB2312 in Putty:

Window->Appearance->Change font to FangSong (can be downloaded and installed).
Then Script should show Chinese GB2312. Select that.

Window->Translation->Use font encoding