[gopher] CAPS capability: ServerDefaultCharset

[James Mills]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:

> Hee hee… One does not need to imagine, one simply needs to download
> Gophernicus and test that feature :-D. Gophernicus autodetectes all input
> (US-ASCII, Latin-1, UTF-8) and re-encodes to output charset which by
> default is US-ASCII. This applies to all text files and generated menus
> (directory listings).
>
> Reason for this seemingly stupid feature was that no client that I tested
> could handle my UTF-8 filenames, and I wasn’t going to change my files so
> changing menus on the fly was the only choice. And since I already had the
> code I decided to re-encode textfiles too.
>

This is really neat :) How do you "detect" the file's encoding btw?
I "almost" do the same with cgod (encoding on the fly) but currently
I make no efforts to auto-dtect file encoding on disk.

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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