Re: [gopher] GopherMole - a gopher media crawler
On 01/03/2015 11:27 AM, James Mills wrote:
Mis-rendered correct (which is what I meant)
but the client "won't break".
That's correct.
What's what I meant by "degrade".
Sure, but that's hardly 'graceful'. And doesn't have anything to do with
ISO-8859-1. Which doesn't mean I am opposed to UTF-8 usage in the
gopherspace, on the contrary, I'm 100% for it. But it's important to
keep in mind the exact impact it will have on legacy clients.
*I think* a Gopher server that splits out UTF_8 encoded data to a Client
that doesn't support UTF-8 encoding will still display the content (just
not any codepoint higher than 255)?
Only low-ascii will be rendered correctly, that is anything above code
point 127 will be scrambled.
Here's an example:
gopher://gopher.viste.fr/0/docs/other/Little%2520Big%2520Adventure%2520-%2520Soluce%2520du%2520jeu%2520%2528french%2529.txt
Same thing here (but on a polish document):
gopher://gopher.viste.fr/0/docs/opowiadania%2520%2528polish%2529/sendbajt.txt
When I open these documents with Overbite, all french or polish
diacritics are broken (until I set my browser manually to UTF-8).
Of course there are thousands of such examples across the gopherspace.
Mateusz
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