Post #2936678

2026-01-19 08:42 UTC

@goosey@mastodon.sdf.org @santi@gone.lema.org What version of DOS does it run ? The original 3.2 ? I am reading here only DOS 5.0 from 1991 could see code page 850 (which is more or less compatible with ISO-8859-1 for Western European accents. If Gopherus works internally in UTF8 then maybe the output would look slightly better using the UTF8 version directly from Writefreely. You can view it on port 7777 with gopher://lacra.ia.br:7777 (Default port 70 outputs ISO-8859-1 served by geomyidae). Makes me think maybe I should output to another port a properly transliterated version with no accents.

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@santi@gone.lema.org 2026-01-19 08:58

@muito_pelo@contra.rio.br @goosey@mastodon.sdf.org “Gopherus decodes all displayable content as UTF-8 and outputs wide characters to the terminal whenever possible (relying on ncursesw). On the DOS platform it limits output to characters in the ASCII range 32..255 and assumes a system codepage set to Latin I.” It seems DOS version does assume Latin 1 encoding actually. But of course it doesn’t mean anything on DOS older than 5.0 which simply didn’t have support for any local codepages. I have distant memories of settting up country.sys for DOS.. From the docs https://gopherus.sourceforge.net/gopherus.txt

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@goosey@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-01-19 09:38

@muito_pelo@contra.rio.br @santi@gone.lema.org Sorry, should have said. MSDOS 5.0 , no codepage extras loaded. And yes you can link or copy those images as you like.

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@goosey@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-01-19 10:06

@muito_pelo@contra.rio.br @santi@gone.lema.org Gopherus times out and browse just spins on the port 7777 .

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