From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>
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Subject: [gopher] Re: The number of a Mozilla bug that was fixed
In-Reply-To: <e9ca8a$fn$1@sea.gmane.org> from Stegozor at "Jul 16,
 6 05:02:34 am"
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:35:07 -0700 (PDT)
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> > I think it's 118438.
> 
> Right, that's it, thank you.
> 
> Also a side question, Cameron: Is gopher only able to display 7 bit 
> ASCII characters, or can it also display 8 bit characters (_, _, _)? I 
> mean, if you had a say French version of your gopher site, would it be 
> technically possible to put it online? ;)

Gopher doesn't care about the encoding of what it serves, which is to say,
eight-bit data is not excluded by the protocol (just not explicitly
supported).

I do still have those files and the gopher is due for an overhaul when I
get back from the east coast.

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