Re: [gopher] Gopher-powered Hangman game!

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>]

> > Gopher Hangman requires a simple text file, with words written one per
> > line (no accents allowed, only plain ASCII).
> 
> To ask a more general question: should gopher generally be limited to
> ASCII? I imagine that there can be problems in serving documents in
> UTF-8 or other more modern encodings due to the age of many clients but
> some browsers (e.g. lynx) do support it. Is this another example of lynx
> not following the gopher protocol standard?

I think gopher should use ASCII where possible and UTF-8 where necessary.
But that's just me.

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