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Ansi colour markup - what encoding or mime type

Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com

Fri Jul 10 17:00:12 BST 2020

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Hello all

My understanding is that you can use special ANSI markup/escape characters to indicate colours.

What is the correct mime type or encoding should be used for this?

Some pages in gemini just seem to apply it in the expectation clients will expect it or know how to parse it, but it is not part of the Gemini spec, and is a terminal thing only. It seems like sending html markup in the middle of a text/gemini file and expecting a client will handle it correctly.

Should such pages be served with a specific mime type or encoding to definitively indicate this?

thanks

- Luke