[gopher] Re: Gopherness

[Kyevan <kyevan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

JumpJet Mailbox wrote:

> If someone desires to use other characters (including "made up ones"), they 
> can type them into a document format that supports the characters (.RTF, 
> .DOC, and etceteras), or even a PDF file.  As a last resort, they can even 
> offer the document as a picture file (.GIF, .JPG, and etceteras). Keeping 
> Item Type 0 "pure" (and I am only talking about Item Type 0) will forever 
> allow communication compatability with ALL computers, of any era.

With UTF-8, the worst that will happen is some junk characters, and that 
only if it uses non-ASCII characters to begin with. Any ASCII text is 
also UTF-8 text.

(Besides, I'm pretty sure I've seen a few other encodings - Big5 comes 
to mind - on various Gopher servers anyway.)

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