Re: [gopher] Hello Gopher Project
It's actually amazing how much of WWW uses characters >128, and even
for some basic characters which are actually in the <128. I notice
many blog posts using a different version of "`" and "'" characters for
some weird reason. This is more noticeable when using Python to scrap
RSS feeds and needing to re-encode them. If you look at some of the
titles and content of the RSS feeds, you'll notice lots of "dont"
rather than "don't" as these blogs are encoding that character using a
non-ACSII byte for whatever reason. My blog, Python Diary in Planet
Python is one of the blogs that only uses only ASCII characters.
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:32:10 -0800
Matt Lewandowsky <matt@greenviolet.net> wrote:
> Relatedly, is there a way to specify character encoding? This conversation has reminded me that being limited to ASCII < 128 (effectively) is really not fun.
>
> As a great example, go poke around Gopherpedia in most clients. :(
>
> If there's going to be any extension for text "smarts", I'd argue that is more important than supporting Markdown right now. (In any case, it's not worthwhile until Common Mark figures out if their "fork to rule them all" is going to actually reduce fragmentation.)
>
> Just my 2 cents (I resisted using non-ASCII there…),
>
> Matt
>
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> From: James Mills
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>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> If github's markdown is close to plain text (at least this is the idea
> I've got from the couple times I touched markdown documents), I'd rather
> serve it as plain text than make markdown files unreadable by clients
> which can't render markdown.
>
> Are there any provisions in Gopher+
> to tell supported clients the mime-type
> of a file they dowlnloaded?
>
> cheers
> James
>
>
> James Mills / prologic
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