[gopher] Re: Multilingual Gopher Support (was Re: Gopherness)

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > More testing results are welcome as well as sample text and menus in
> > other languages and encodings.
> 
> Roman, I have tested your pages as well, albeit with different
> results, which can be seen, along with further tests, on my test
> server (I've also included screenshots of each result, just so we know
> exactly what's being output by the client):
> 
> gopher://gopher.hughguiney.com/1/utf8/
> 
> The text files both worked in every scenario. The menus, however, only
> worked with UTF-8 in Firefox using the Mozilla core Gopher handler
> (rather than Overbite). The character sets in all other scenarios are
> misinterpreted. Manually changing them with View > Character Encoding
> > ... to the right ones made no difference, because the source code is
> automatically escaped as Unicode internally before it reaches the
> browser. In the case of Mozilla core, this is a percent-encoded
> result, a la URIs (%20 etc). In the case of Overbite, this is a
> numeric character reference, a la HTML (  etc).

Are you running the most recent Overbite (build 1409)? I think you've
hit the character encoding bug Mate reported and I fixed.

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