[gopher] CAPS capability: ServerDefaultCharset

[Nuno Silva]

On 2015-01-03 14:46, Kim Holviala wrote:
> > On 03 Jan 2015, at 14:34, Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Of course one could imagine a server that recodes everything on the fly, when files are physically stored in another charset, but's that would rather be a special feature of the server (and IMHO, an unnecessary one, since it makes more sense to directly store the content in utf-8 anyway).
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> Here’s an example:
> gopher://holviala.com/0/~kim/testsuite/charset#040Mixed
> 
> Originally that text file has “ÅåÄäÖö” (all the strange chars we use
> here in Finland) in both Latin-1 and UTF-8. Even if Gophernicus loses
> some information, at least it’s readable.  

You mean Gophernicus can even handle both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 if
they're mixed inside the *same* document? That's neat! (And it also
degrades in a nice way!)

-- 
Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
Helsinki, Finland