[gopher] Hello Gopher Project

[James Mills]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> It's actually amazing how much of WWW uses characters >128, and even
> for some basic characters which are actually in the <128.  I notice
> many blog posts using a different version of "`" and "'" characters for
> some weird reason.  This is more noticeable when using Python to scrap
> RSS feeds and needing to re-encode them.  If you look at some of the
> titles and content of the RSS feeds, you'll notice lots of "dont"
> rather than "don't" as these blogs are encoding that character using a
> non-ACSII byte for whatever reason.  My blog, Python Diary in Planet
> Python is one of the blogs that only uses only ASCII characters.
>

Yeah in my attempt to provide a Gopher version of the PyPi Feed(s)
I encountered a Unicode issue last night. So I had to disable it fo rnow.

I'm using gopherfeed (a library I found on Bitbucket)
but I may have to fork it and improve it's Unicode support
(or lack thereof) and improve it's ability to deal with broken
encodings :)

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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