From: "Gopher-Project" <gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org> Date: Tue Jan 12 13:21:54 2016 Subject: Re: [gopher] Raspberry Pi, Gopher and UTF-8 I'm not 100%, but you might be referring to my gopherus client: http://gopherus.sourceforge.net/ Mateusz On 12/01/2016 13:09, Kim Holviala wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm 99% sure the problem is not in Rasbian vs. Debian proper - the proble= m is actually in Gopher protocol which doesn't specify any charset (it hint= s that Latin-1 could be used) and in Lynx which apparently just obeys the p= rotocol and console locale settings. OverbiteFF, or actually Firefox, will = allow you to override any charset so you can almost always get proper chars= on screen, but I'm not sure if such overrides exist in Lynx (elinks does h= ave charset overriding but it doesn't support gopher). > > There was a new console gopher client announced on this list a year ago? = I can't remember it's name but search the archives - it does exist. > > > - Kim > > >> On 12 Jan 2016, at 14:00, H=E9ctor A. Abreu <habreu71@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thank you for your reply, Kim. >> >> I just sent a question about this problem to the Lynx web browser develo= pers email list. I basically need a command line based client to view UTF-8= gopher correctly from ARM low cost ssh server. I have tested on Raspberry = Pi (with and without ssh) but I haven't tested on Beaglebone Black, which i= s supposed to use the "real" Debian (compared to Raspbian), and I am not su= re if that has anything to do with the problem. >> >> I don't understand why the same client (Lynx) on the same platform (Rasp= berry Pi) will display UTF-8 correctly for http but incorrectly for gopher.= It means that the problem is not the computer or the browser's UTF-8 setti= ngs. >> >> If the Lynx guys help me I will share the solution with this list. Other= wise, I guess I will need to test with another gopher command line based cl= ient (I will probably check w3m) or start developing one myself. >> >> Regards, >> -- >> H=E9ctor >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:53:53AM +0200, Kim Holviala wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Having tested different charsets across gopher servers and clients, the= only thing that ever worked properly was 7-bit US-ASCII. Yes, you can try = using others like Latin-1 or UTF-8 but the results vary and I'm willing to = bet that most users will get a broken screen (unless they know how to mess = with browser settings). >>> >>> >>> - Kim >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 11 Jan 2016, at 00:30, H=E9ctor A. Abreu <habreu71@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am having problems to view utf-8 on the gopherspace when using a Ras= pberry Pi with clients Lynx and Gopher cli on Raspbian Jessie. For example,= the links below: >>>> >>>> http link: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html >>>> gopher link: gopher://z3bra.org:70/0/notes/vim/digraphs.txt >>>> >>>> On the Raspberry Pi, http link will display utf-8 correctly with Lynx,= but gopher link will fail to display correctly with both Lynx and Gopher f= rom bash. >>>> >>>> On my other Linux boxes (HP Laptop with Lubuntu, AMD with Debian Jessi= e LXDE) both links will work fine with Lynx, but Gopher cli will fail to di= splay gopher link characters correctly. >>>> >>>> If anyone in this list is able to view gopher links with utf-8 correct= ly on a Raspberry Pi using Lynx or Gopher from bash please let me know. I t= hink I took care of the locale correctly, otherwise it should not display h= ttp link correctly with Lynx. That's why I think this might be an issue rel= ated to gopher. >>>> >>>> Thank you in advance for your help. >>>> -- >>>> H=E9ctor >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gopher-Project mailing list >>>> Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org >>>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gopher-Project mailing list >>> Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org >>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gopher-Project mailing list >> Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Raspberry Pi, Gopher and UTF-8 (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] Raspberry Pi, Gopher and UTF-8