[gopher] RFC submission?

[James Mills]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> Aren't you mixing ISO-8859-1 with ASCII? AFAIK, the first 128 bytes in
> utf8 represent the same as they represent in ASCII. While Wikipedia says
> that "ISO-8859-1 was incorporated as the first 256 code points of
> ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode.", this is, if I'm not mistaken, the
> *character set*, not the encoding for these characters. In the specific
> case of utf8, the lowest 128 codepoints are represented in a way that is
> compatible with ASCII (and thus with ISO-8859-*[1]), but other codepoints
> above 128, even those from ISO-8859-1, aren't compatible with ISO-8859-1.
>
> See, for example,
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81#Character_mappings
>

You are of course quite right :) Thank you for clearing tha tup.

I think the point is clear though?
Older clients *can* handle UTF-8 encoding even now
(even if not rendered properly).

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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