Re: [gopher] RFC submission?

[James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:

Aren't you mixing ISO-8859-1 with ASCII? AFAIK, the first 128 bytes in
utf8 represent the same as they represent in ASCII. While Wikipedia says
that "ISO-8859-1 was incorporated as the first 256 code points of
ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode.", this is, if I'm not mistaken, the
*character set*, not the encoding for these characters. In the specific
case of utf8, the lowest 128 codepoints are represented in a way that is
compatible with ASCII (and thus with ISO-8859-*[1]), but other codepoints
above 128, even those from ISO-8859-1, aren't compatible with ISO-8859-1.

See, for example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81#Character_mappings

You are of course quite right :) Thank you for clearing tha tup.

I think the point is clear though?

Older clients *can* handle UTF-8 encoding even now

(even if not rendered properly).

cheers

James

James Mills / prologic

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