[gopher] Raspberry Pi, Gopher and UTF-8

[Héctor A. Abreu]

Thank you for your reply, Kim.

I just sent a question about this problem to the Lynx web browser developers email list. I basically need a command line based client to view UTF-8 gopher correctly from ARM low cost ssh server. I have tested on Raspberry Pi (with and without ssh) but I haven't tested on Beaglebone Black, which is supposed to use the "real" Debian (compared to Raspbian), and I am not sure if that has anything to do with the problem.

I don't understand why the same client (Lynx) on the same platform (Raspberry Pi) will display UTF-8 correctly for http but incorrectly for gopher. It means that the problem is not the computer or the browser's UTF-8 settings.

If the Lynx guys help me I will share the solution with this list. Otherwise, I guess I will need to test with another gopher command line based client (I will probably check w3m) or start developing one myself.

Regards,
-- 
Héctor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:53:53AM +0200, Kim Holviala wrote:
> 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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