[gopher] Re: Handling of ISO-8859-* character sets

[Alessandro Selli <dhatarattha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>    Hello,
>>      Before I run the risk of making a fool of myself and open a bug repor=
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>> that should not be opened, I need to know if someone of you can and is=
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>> willing to give me an idea on how are ISO-8859 character sets handled =
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>> gopher menus.
>> I think their correct display is left to the client, the server and th=
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>> protocol do not take in account any particular character set, right?
>
> As far as I know, no, they do not. The client is responsible for the
> rendering. What's the selector/URL?


   It's gopher://gopher.route-add.net/.  The menu should read:

______________________________________________________________________
| Benvenuti sul server sperimentale Gopher di "route-add.net"!        |
|                                                                     |
| Il contenuto del server non =E8 ancora definito, sar=E0 per=F2         =
   |
| probabilmente destinato alla distribuzione di script vari e di      |
| documenti tecnici sull'amministrazione di sistemi Unix.             |
|                                                                     |
| La macchina sulla quale gira il server =E8 una SparcStation5-85       |
| della Sun Microsystems con Debian GNU/Linux quale sistema operativo |
| mentre il server gopher =E8 il Bucktooth 0.2                          |
______________________________________________________________________

while instead on Seamonkey 1.0 I get this:

______________________________________________________________________
| Benvenuti sul server sperimentale Gopher di "route-add.net"!        |=20
                                                                     |=20
                                                                    |
|                                                                     |
|                                                                     |
| probabilmente destinato alla distribuzione di script vari e di      |
| documenti tecnici sull'amministrazione di sistemi Unix.             |
|                                                                     |
|                                                                     |
| della Sun Microsystems con Debian GNU/Linux quale sistema operativo |=09
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Alessandro Selli
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http://alessandro.route-add.net