Re: [gopher] Hello Gopher Project
afaik gopher has no provision for charset declaration. But I don't think that such provision is necessary, I'd say that it would be best for any gopher client to assume utf-8, since it's both universal and backward compatible with low ascii... overbite uses iso8859-1 by default (or is it firefox that controls that?) it might be a nice improvement to turn overbite into utf8 by default (or make it configurable at least).
Mateusz
On December 16, 2014 1:32:10 AM GMT+01:00, 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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>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
>
>
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