Opening of the first modules a new Gemini station

[Frank Juedes]

Hi Jonathan,

on the contrary! There is a code block for Shavian available in the Unicode characterset:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_(Unicode_block)

And for quickscript there is an open proposal from 2006:

https://www.mail-archive.com/shavian@yahoogroups.com/msg00178.html

I don't know why that proposal has not been included into the current Unicode specs, but i'm sure with a little bit of pressure it will be in the future.

Best regards from Charleston (WV),
     Frank/2

On 2021-06-01 13:41, Jonathan McHugh wrote:
> 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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