Displaying HTML text on a non-graphical console

Text from an HTML document is displayed without the use of a browser. The method includes receiving an HTML coded message that includes a text message that has been encoded using a sender's character set; identifying a character map pseudonym of a current character map of the receiving console; identifying the sender's character set that was used to encode the text message; identifying true character map names of character maps that are available to the receiving console; using the character map pseudonym to perform a first fuzzy search of the true character map names to identify a console character map; using the sender's character set to perform a second fuzzy search of the true character map names to identify a sender's character map that is associated with the sender's character set; and transencoding the text message from the sender's character map to the console character map.