[gopher] gopher++ (gopher1) protocol

[Florian Teply]

On Monday 11 January 2010 11:03:14 Mateusz Viste wrote:

> About the "Accept-Charset" header: It seems useless to me... The server
> won't be able to transcode a given 8bit charset into another one, as
> that's simply impossible. Why not simply stating, that any Gopher++
> document *has* to be provided in UTF-8?
> 
Something along those lines, even though not necessarily gopher++: on 
gopher://gopher.teply.info/1/test 
i've put up a very simple UTF-8 test menu. Mainly it was out of curiosity 
whether or not it'll work in any way. It's a simple test of UTF-8 encoded 
display strings, selector strings and text files (including UTF-8 in 
filenames) served. It's running on pygopherd if that matters in any way.
So far, i've tested on both Firefox with Overbite and lynx.
Basically, FF with Overbite and lynx both work, with display options set right 
(UTF-8 locale in lynx, character encoding set properly in FF). The only 
problem i've found is with UTF-8 in a selector string / filename, which i 
haven't got to work in lynx yet with configuration only. FF does display the 
file properly, but the selector string displayed in the adress bar does rather 
look like interpreted as ISO-8859-1. If i type the proper string (test2łŁð 
that is as filename) into the Adress bar, FF queries for a different 
nonexisting file according to my gopher.log. Interestingly, the string 
displayed as ISO-8859-1 results in the correct UTF-8 selector string and gets 
served properly. For proper display of UTF-8 inside files, lynx has to be 
configured to assume UTF-8 encoding.

Maybe you guys want to test out other clients. Feel free to surf that gopher 
directory. In case someone would like to see some more tests there, just drop 
me a line. Would be good to know how other servers handle that as well.

Greetings,
Florian
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