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Subject: [gopher] Re: Please try out the world's first wiki-based gopher proxy!
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:18:26 -0700 (PDT)
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> > Neat. The only glitches I found is that it butchers ASCII art (but I can
> > understand the reason for this), and plaintext gets mangled since it doesn't
> > have HTML breaks. But I like the idea!
> 
> I'm torn:  I like the readability of a proportional font, but yes, it
> does wreak havoc with things that depend on monospace fonts.  I'm
> still trying to figure this one out.

Yeah, I figured it was something like that. It's a tough line to walk.

> Where did you find an instance of plaintext mangling?  I'd like to see
> this, as I'm going a global search and replace on \r\n with HTML
> breaks already...

Here's one, among others:

        http://wikkacase.org/wiki/GopherProxy/gopher?uri=pha.se:70/0/about.txt

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