From: gopher-bounce@complete.org
       Date: Mon Aug 11 06:51:07 2008
       Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopherness
       
       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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