[gopher] Raspberry Pi, Gopher and UTF-8

[Kim Holviala]

Hi,

Having tested different charsets across gopher servers and clients, the only thing that ever worked properly was 7-bit US-ASCII. Yes, you can try using others like Latin-1 or UTF-8 but the results vary and I'm willing to bet that most users will get a broken screen (unless they know how to mess with browser settings).


- Kim



> On 11 Jan 2016, at 00:30, Héctor A. Abreu <habreu71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having problems to view utf-8 on the gopherspace when using a Raspberry Pi with clients Lynx and Gopher cli on Raspbian Jessie. For example, the links below:
> 
> http link: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
> gopher link: gopher://z3bra.org:70/0/notes/vim/digraphs.txt  
> 
> On the Raspberry Pi, http link will display utf-8 correctly with Lynx, but gopher link will fail to display correctly with both Lynx and Gopher from bash.
> 
> On my other Linux boxes (HP Laptop with Lubuntu, AMD with Debian Jessie LXDE) both links will work fine with Lynx, but Gopher cli will fail to display gopher link characters correctly.
> 
> If anyone in this list is able to view gopher links with utf-8 correctly on a Raspberry Pi using Lynx or Gopher from bash please let me know. I think I took care of the locale correctly, otherwise it should not display http link correctly with Lynx. That's why I think this might be an issue related to gopher.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> -- 
> Héctor
> 
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