Statement of intent regarding document encodings

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Tue Nov 10 21:24:11 GMT 2020


It was thus said that the Great Drew DeVault once stated:
> I am stopping by to clarify another intepretation of the Gemini spec
> made by my implementations.
> 
> https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gmni
> https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/kineto
> 
> With respect to the charset parameter of the document mimetype for
> text/gemini documents, it is our intention to ONLY support UTF-8, and to
> raise an error if any other content encoding is specified.

  You may want to revisit that decision and allow US-ASCII as well.  It's a
strict subset of UTF-8, and about half the text pages return that encoding:

	https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gus.guru/statistics
	(bottom of page, by charset)

  -spc



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