Re: [gopher] Gopher-powered Hangman game!

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>]

> > 1. Text written in script other than Latin or with accented letters will
> >    appear as garbage in a client that either excepts plain ASCII or Latin 1.
> >   - UMN Gopher client expects Latin 1 both in directory and in text
> >   - lynx does some strange things [2]
> >   - Firefox (without overbite) does some strange things [2] with directory
> >     but displays text as usual (heuristically guessing the encoding or
> >     letting user choose it manually)
> [...]
> > [2] Looks like UTF-8 encoding is accepted but only characters present in
> >     ISO Latin 1 set are displayed correctly?
> 
> lynx has an "Assumed document character set" setting, and my experience
> is that it is set to iso-8859-1 by default. And you can't save this
> setting to the configuration file. But it seems lynx will take it as an
> argument: "-assume_charset=MIMEname".
> 
> Changing this renders utf8 text gopher resources as expected.

"We" really need to start collecting things like this in a FAQ.

I also have some ideas about a gopher-based wiki. Perhaps it's time to do
some work on it.

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