[gopher] RFC submission?

[James Mills]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> a) We have no way to convert all the gopherspace to utf8, assuming utf8
> in some clients will probably break compatibility with older gopherholes
> or older content. Perhaps some clients could implement some kind of
> content sniffing to tell utf8 apart from ISO8859-*. But, as utf8 is
> quite new compared to gopher, I'm not sure it is even a good idea to use
> utf8 (although I do use it myself): wouldn't it break older clients as
> well?
>

My only retort to this is that UTF-8
drgrades gracefully to ISO-8859-1

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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