[gopher] Re: Gopherness
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- Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopherness
- From: Roman Pavlov <webmaster@ankylym.ru>
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:43:39 +0400
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Yes, I upgraded to the latest overbite and noticed that everything
displays correctly, just may need some manual setting depending on
whether local browser default encoding is utf-8 or not (if it is not,
one needs to explicitly set browser encoding for utf-8 text, and maybe
vice versa, but I didn't check)
Mate Nagy wrote:
> Hello,
>> In fact, encoding of text files does not matter much as user can always
>> download the file and view it with external program or explicitly set
>> the encoding if browser supports it (any GUI web browser and lynx). I'm
>> more concerned with gopher menu rendering, 'cause it can be presented by
>> gopher client only and looks like no browser displays UTF-8 menus
>> correctly and displaying 8-bit menus requires manual setup.
> pls note that (after manual setting) newest overbite handles both
> menus and text content perfectly :) (tested with both 8bit and utf-8
> menus)
>
> Regards,
> Mate
>
>
>
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