[gopher] GopherMole - a gopher media crawler

[James Mills]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste.fr> wrote:

> Quite untrue. UTF-8 doesn't 'degrade' to anything, unless only low-ascii
> characters are used. Anything else gets encoded into 2,3 or 4 bytes-long
> code points, and these are guaranteed to be misrendered by any client
> unaware of UTF-8.
>

Mis-rendered correct (which is what I meant)
but the client "won't break".

What's what I meant by "degrade".

*I think* a Gopher server that splits out UTF_8 encoded data to a Client
that doesn't support UTF-8 encoding will still display the content (just
not any codepoint higher than 255)?

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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