From: "Gopher-Project" <gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org> Date: Sat Jan 3 10:15:39 2015 Subject: Re: [gopher] RFC submission? On 2015-01-03 18:15, James Mills wrote: > My 2c worth would be that: > > a) We use UTF-8 across all of Gopherspace > > and > > b) We actually simplify the protocol and even remove some item types that > make little to no sense. (e.g: Just one image itemtype) [...] I'd say that a) We have no way to convert all the gopherspace to utf8, assuming utf8 in some clients will probably break compatibility with older gopherholes or older content. Perhaps some clients could implement some kind of content sniffing to tell utf8 apart from ISO8859-*. But, as utf8 is quite new compared to gopher, I'm not sure it is even a good idea to use utf8 (although I do use it myself): wouldn't it break older clients as well? b) Same as above, I don't think it's a good idea to force people to upgrade their gopherholes so that their content is still accessible using newer clients. Just one image itemtype makes no sense, as there are different image formats. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) Helsinki, Finland _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] RFC submission? (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] RFC submission?