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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