[gopher] gopher++ (gopher1) protocol
Kim Holviala
kim at holviala.com
Sun Jan 24 18:12:33 UTC 2010
On 2010-01-24 19:10, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> Overbite UTF-8 OK OK OK OK
>> Overbite ISO-8859-1 Fail Fail OK OK
>
> That doesn't make sense. Isn't UTF-8 a superset of ISO-8859-1? I'm happy
> that Overbite did the best, but I'm distressed it failed two of the
> ISO-8859-1 tests.
The way I see it (as a coder who hasn't taken a look at either FF or
Overbite's sources) is that you're dumping UTF-8 to the screen as is. If
the local charset (and font) supports it then it works fine, but if the
local charset is ISO-8859-1 then I get the familiar mess that is wide
chars on Latin-1.
This is what I get with LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 & the latest Overbite
(hopefully this gets through properly):
"Test with some weird characters like łŀöäüð in the display string"
Interesting - now that I tested it again test #2 does work with
Overbite... So it's "Fail - OK - OK - OK" with ISO-8859-1 as the local
charset.
If I manually change the charset to UTF-8 (View / Character Encoding /
Unicode) then Overbite works beautifully even when the local charset is
ISO-8859-1.
- Kim
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