Opening of the first modules a new Gemini station

[Jonathan McHugh]

Hi Frank,

Im planning on experimenting with the Shavian and Quickscript alphabets
next year.

I guess my chances arent very good for Gemini :(


Jonathan

Frank Jüdes <Frank.Juedes@linux4specialists.com> writes:

> Hi Stephane,
>
> i have not (yet) figured out how to convert multi-byte characters from
> URL-encoding back into in the correct Unicode characters in
> Perl. There are a couple of Perl packages claiming to be able to to
> that, but the two i have tested didn't work correct with all
> characters, for example the German Umlauts äöü are working fine, but
> the sharp s (ß) does not. - 
> Work in progress…
>
> Best regards from Charleston (WV),
>      Frank/2
>
> On 2021-05-30 04:28, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 12:36:20AM -0400,
>>   Frank Jüdes <Frank.Juedes@linux4specialists.com> wrote
>>   a message of 208 lines which said:
>>
>>> sorry for the non-functional box utility! /boxes/ is using the file
>>> //usr/share/boxes/boxes/ on my development-system (Oracle Linux 7.9) to
>>> store the box design-definitions, whereas on the production-server (Centos
>>> 8.2) the filename is//usr/share/boxes/ instead. Had to add a couple of lines
>>> to the perl program to determine the correct filename and now it works:
>> It fails for Unicode characters. I input "deux cafés" in Lagrange and
>> I get mojibake "deux cafés"
>> <gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/cgi-bin/boxes/Deux%20cafés,%20pour%20moi>


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Jonathan McHugh
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