[gopher] Gopher-powered Hangman game!
Cameron Kaiser
spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Nov 24 13:46:22 UTC 2009
> > Gopher Hangman requires a simple text file, with words written one per
> > line (no accents allowed, only plain ASCII).
>
> To ask a more general question: should gopher generally be limited to
> ASCII? I imagine that there can be problems in serving documents in
> UTF-8 or other more modern encodings due to the age of many clients but
> some browsers (e.g. lynx) do support it. Is this another example of lynx
> not following the gopher protocol standard?
I think gopher should use ASCII where possible and UTF-8 where necessary.
But that's just me.
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