[gopher] Re: Gopherness

[Kyevan <kyevan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about older clients, though? Modern clients will probably handle 
UTF-8 at least well enough to not explode, but older clients might not. 
Generally, it seems safest to stick to the subset that is ASCII when 
reasonable, only using UTF-8 or such when it's actually needed. ... is a 
perfectly readable replacement for U+2026, even if it's not 
"typographically correct." On the other hand, if you're trying to post a 
text in, say, a mix of Arabic, and Klingon, go right ahead and use UTF-8.

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> I can see where it might be troublesome for filenames and selectors to be
> UTF-8, although that would be a local filesystem and/or server issue.
> 
> However, there's nothing really preventing the use of UTF-8 in Gopher,
> and in fact I am personally aware of several sites that use it. Overbite
> does support it and the most current version has a bug with encoding smoked
> out which should make it nearly perfect. I was testing it on both a Big5
> encoded Chinese gopher site and another UTF-8 encoded menu, and it renders
> correctly.