[gopher] GopherMole - a gopher media crawler

[James Mills]

Agreed on all points.

The issue I have (regardless of CAPS or not)
is how do we tell the client a particular documen
is UTF-8 encoded?

Or does a Client query a Gopherd for CAPS
and if it sees "Encoding: utf-8" assumes *all*
content it receives from *that* Gopherd is
encoded in UTF-8?

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste.fr> wrote:

> On 01/03/2015 11:27 AM, James Mills wrote:
>
>> Mis-rendered correct (which is what I meant)
>> but the client "won't break".
>>
>
> That's correct.
>
>  What's what I meant by "degrade".
>>
>
> Sure, but that's hardly 'graceful'. And doesn't have anything to do with
> ISO-8859-1. Which doesn't mean I am opposed to UTF-8 usage in the
> gopherspace, on the contrary, I'm 100% for it. But it's important to keep
> in mind the exact impact it will have on legacy clients.
>
>  *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)?
>>
>
> Only low-ascii will be rendered correctly, that is anything above code
> point 127 will be scrambled.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> gopher://gopher.viste.fr/0/docs/other/Little%2520Big%2520Adventure%2520-%
> 2520Soluce%2520du%2520jeu%2520%2528french%2529.txt
>
> Same thing here (but on a polish document):
>
> gopher://gopher.viste.fr/0/docs/opowiadania%2520%
> 2528polish%2529/sendbajt.txt
>
> When I open these documents with Overbite, all french or polish diacritics
> are broken (until I set my browser manually to UTF-8).
>
> Of course there are thousands of such examples across the gopherspace.
>
> Mateusz
>
>
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