[gopher] GopherMole - a gopher media crawler

[James Mills]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Matjaž Mešnjak <matjaz85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well .. theoretically you could use UTF-8 BOM to mark UTF-8 files on
> per-document basis. But implementing detection of this into existing
> clients is of course not always an option. In my opinion - using UTF-8 as
> default encoding is good compromise. RFC compliant clients will still work
> and english only text will be displayed as expected. For other languages
> having an option to display accented characters in some clients (UTF-8
> enabled ones) is still better than not being able to display them at all.
>

Well a Gopherd could use the BOM marker right?

This way a Gopherd could read the file, decode it
and reencode using the DefaultEncoding CAPS configuration?

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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